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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| From Aphorism to Story and from Epistle to Gospel in Judaism and Christianity | |
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| From Aphorism to Story From Epistle to Gospel | |
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| Narrative as a Medium for Making a Religious Statement | |
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| The Sage-Story and the Advent of the Sage Part One Rhetoric and Topic | |
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| The Comparison of Literary and Programmatic Traits | |
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| The Structure of The Fathers and of The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan | |
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| From Aphorism to Story: The Transformation of The Fathers The Principles of Composition | |
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| Comparison and Contrast Comparing The Fathers to The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan | |
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| Comparing The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan XXIV-XXX to The Fathers One Program of Composition | |
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| The Shared Structure of The Fathers and The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan | |
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| The Matter of Rhetoric: The Forms of the Fathers and of The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan | |
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| Consensual Authorship and Formalized Rhetoric | |
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| What We Learn from Analyzing Rhetorical Form The Forms of The Fathers | |
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| The Forms of The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan | |
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| The Forms of The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan | |
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| Compared to The Forms of The Fathers Comparison and Contrast in the Literary | |
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| Programs of the Two Documents | |
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| The Matter of Topic | |
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| The Topical Program of The Fathers and of The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan | |
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| From Style to Substance Points in Common | |
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| Points of Difference Comparison and Contrast in the Topical Programs of the Two Documents | |
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| Where The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan Differs from The Fathers | |
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| The Advent of the Holy Sage and of Episodes in the Lives of the Saints | |
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| The Sage, the Story, and the Advent of History Part Two Logic and Proposition | |
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| Narratives in The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan | |
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| The Matter of Logic and Proposition | |
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| The Burden of Narrative in the Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan | |
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| The Three Logics of Intelligible Discourse and the Importance of Narrative | |
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| Narrative as Mode of Thought, Medium, and Message | |
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| An Inductive Taxonomy of Narrative in The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan | |
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| An Inductive Taxonomy of the Story in The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan | |
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| Scripture-Stories Concerning the Creation Scripture-Stories Concerning Moses and Israel Indicative Traits of the Scripture-Story | |
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| The Sage-Story in Particular From Aphorism to Story | |
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| The Scripture-Story and the Sage-Story | |
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| Differences in Narrative Convention | |
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| The Repertoire of Sage-Stories | |
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| The Propositions of Sage-Stories Names Not Celebrated | |
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| Stories Not Told Part Three - Comparisons and Contrasts | |
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| The Story in The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan in Canonical Context | |
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| These Stories in Particular: The Stories in The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan in Comparison to Their Use in Other Compositions | |
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| The Canonical Context Stories | |
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| That Matter Old or New? | |
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| If New, Then What Changes? | |
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| If Old, Then How Different? | |
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| The Contribution of the Story: Why Was This Medium Chosen for This Particular Message? | |
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| The Documentary Perspective on the Advent of the Story | |
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| The Story in General: Its Function in The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan and in Other Compositions | |
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| Contradiction and Conundrum What Is at Stake? | |
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| Differentiating the Varied Uses of the Story in Diverse Documents of the Dual Torah | |
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| The Singular Stories Revisited | |
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| The New and the Old The Story in General | |
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| Judaism and Story Appendices | |
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| The Sayings of the Fathers | |
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| Appendix to Chapter One | |
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| Comparing The Fathers to The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan | |
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| The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan Chapters XXIV-XXX Compared to The Fathers | |
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| The Repertoire of Formal Rhetoric of The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan | |
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| Topics Treated in The Fathers and Not in The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan | |
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| Topics Treated in The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan and Not in The Fathers | |
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| Life, Death, and Torah Study Abbreviations | |
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| Index of Bib | |