Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
Biographic Data
| ID | 2832291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barry Scott Wimpfheimer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barry Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Wimpfheimer |
| SIGNATURE | WIMPFHEIMER B S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Religious Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Mishnah's Reader: Reconsidering Literary Meaning
The Mishnah is both the best-organized work of rabbinic literature and not entirely consistent in its organization. These aspects led to robust scholarly debates about the Mishnah as a work of literature. Recent overview scholarship has highlighted the inconsistency and refused to attempt to define the Mishnah's literary genre. This essay draws on three common mishnaic phenomena to highlight the ways the Mishnah asks to be read. It argues that th…
A Biography or a Hagiography
The Talmud: A Biography
The life and times of an enduring work of Jewish spiritualityThe Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part scripture and part commentary, is an unlikely bestseller. Written in a hybrid of Hebrew and Aramaic, it is often ambiguous to the point of incomprehension, and its subject matter reflects a narrow scholasticism that should hardly have broad appeal. Yet the Talmud has remained in print for centuries and is more popular today …
Narrating the Law: A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories
The Dialogical Talmud: Daniel Boyarin and Rabbinics
The Dialogical Talmud:Daniel Boyarin and Rabbinics Barry Scott Wimpfheimer Daniel Boyarin. Socrates and the Fat Rabbis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. xiv + 388. Daniel Boyarin. Socrates and the Fat Rabbis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. xiv + 388. Since 1990, Daniel Boyarin has published seven monographs (Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash [1990], A Radical Jew [1994], Carnal Israel [1993], Unheroic Cond…
Narrating the Law: A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories
The Dialogical Talmud: Daniel Boyarin and Rabbinics
The Dialogical Talmud:Daniel Boyarin and Rabbinics Barry Scott Wimpfheimer Daniel Boyarin. Socrates and the Fat Rabbis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. xiv + 388. Daniel Boyarin. Socrates and the Fat Rabbis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. xiv + 388. Since 1990, Daniel Boyarin has published seven monographs (Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash [1990], A Radical Jew [1994], Carnal Israel [1993], Unheroic Cond…
A Biography or a Hagiography
The Talmud: A Biography
The life and times of an enduring work of Jewish spiritualityThe Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part scripture and part commentary, is an unlikely bestseller. Written in a hybrid of Hebrew and Aramaic, it is often ambiguous to the point of incomprehension, and its subject matter reflects a narrow scholasticism that should hardly have broad appeal. Yet the Talmud has remained in print for centuries and is more popular today …
The Mishnah's Reader: Reconsidering Literary Meaning
The Mishnah is both the best-organized work of rabbinic literature and not entirely consistent in its organization. These aspects led to robust scholarly debates about the Mishnah as a work of literature. Recent overview scholarship has highlighted the inconsistency and refused to attempt to define the Mishnah's literary genre. This essay draws on three common mishnaic phenomena to highlight the ways the Mishnah asks to be read. It argues that th…
Biblical Studies and Interpretation (5 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Biography (2 works)