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Studies in Rabbinic Narratives, Volume 2 explores rabbinic narratives found in the Mishnah, Talmuds, and midrashim.  Contributors use a variety of methods drawn from literary and cultural theory to address fundamental questions such as the relationship between stories and law, between aggadic narratives and their halakic contexts, and between rabbinic narratives and their Greco-Roman, Persian-Sasanian and Syrian-Christian contexts. The volume includes eleven studies by contributors Gila Fine, Matthew Goldstone, Chaya T. Halberstam, Jenny R. Labendz, Lynn Kaye, Admiel Kosman, Avi M. Miller, Aviva Richman, Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, Mira Beth Wasserman, and Shlomo Zuckier.

Jeffrey L. Rubenstein is the Skirball Professor of Talmud and Rabbinic Literature in the Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies of New York University. His books include The History of Sukkot in the Second Temple and Rabbinic Periods (1995), Talmudic Stories: Narrative Art, Composition and Culture (1999), Rabbinic Stories (2002), The Culture of the Babylonian Talmud (2003), and Stories of the Babylonian Talmud (2010). Dr. Rubenstein is the author of numerous articles on the festival of Sukkot, talmudic stories, the development of Jewish law, and topics in Jewish liturgy and ethics.