Rabbi Jeffrey Saks interviews Dr. Moshe Simon-Shoshan about his new book Stories of the Law: Narrative Discourse and the Construction of Authority in the Mishnah (Oxford University Press). Why does the Mishnah, a legal code, contain stories, and what do their presence in that great halakhic work say about who the Rabbis were?Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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