פרופ' משה שושן

Publications

Stories of the Law: Narrative Discourse and the Construction of Authority in the Mishnah. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012 (287 pp.).

Second edition, 2013.  

Books (as editor)

None

Articles and Chapters in Books

1) “Ain’t Nothing But a Hound Dog?: The Meaning of the Noun klb in Northwest Semitic Languages in Light of BT Rosh Hashannah 4b.” In A Common Cultural Heritage: Studies in Mesopotamia and the Biblical World in Honor of Dr. Barry L. Eichler, edited by Grant Frame et al., 177–94. Bethesda: University Press of Maryland, 2011.

2) “Tanna, Tannaim” and “Rabbi Tarfon.” In The Routledge Dictionary of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, edited by Eric Olin et al., 926, 927. London: Routledge, 2016.

3) “The Transmission and Evolution of the Story of the Deposition of R. Gamliel.”  In Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries: The Interbellum 70–132 CE, edited by Joshua Schwartz and Peter J. Tomson,  197–222. Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum 15. Leiden: Brill, 2016.

4) “Halakhah and Aggadah in Tannaitic Sources.” In The Literature of the Sages, edited by Cristine Hayes. Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum. Leiden: Brill, 2021

Articles in periodicals

1)  “‘Many Thoughts in the Heart of Man…’: Irony and Theology in the Book of Esther.” Tradition 31, no. 4 (1997): 5–27.

2) “Halakhic Mimesis: Rhetorical and Redactional Strategies in Tannaitic Narrative.” Dine Yisrael 24 (2006): 101*–123*.

3)  “A Study in Rabbinic Cosmology.” BDD 20 (2008): 67–96.

4) “The Tasks of the Translators: The Rabbis, the Septuagint, and the Cultural Politics of Translation.” Prooftexts 27, no. 1 (2007): 1–39.

5) “Between Philology and Foucault: New Syntheses in the Study of the Mishnah.” AJS Review 32, no. 2 (2008): 251–62.                                                                          

6) “Midrash Matters.” Tradition 44, no. 3 (2011): 33–38.

7) “Narrativity and Textuality in the Study of Stories.” Proceedings of the Computational Models of Narrative Workshop (2013): 228–39.

8) “Sipur Honi Hameagel be-mishnah Taanit 3:8: Miqreh mivhan shel melekhet ha-sipur ba-mishnah.” Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature 26 (2013): 1–20 (HEB).

9) “‘People Talking Without Speaking’: The Semiotics of the Rabbinic Legal Exemplum as Reflected in Bavli Berakhot 11a.” Journal of Law and Literature 25, no. 2 (2013): 446–65.

10) “Creators of Worlds: The Deposition of R. Gamliel and the Invention of Yavneh.” AJS Review 41, no. 2 (2017): 287–313.

11)  “Did the Rabbis Believe in Agreus Pan? Rabbinic Relationships with Roman Power, Culture, and Religion in Genesis Rabbah 63.” Harvard Theological Review 111, no. 3 (2018): 425–50.

12) “Talmud as Novel: Dialogic Discourse and the Feminine Voice in the Babylonian Talmud.” Poetics Today 40, no. 1 (2019): 105–34.  

13)   “A Doorway of Their Own: Female Ethos in Dialogue in the Talmuds.” Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues 35 (2019): 97–127. 

14)  “Past Continuous: The Yerushalmi’s Account of Honi’s Long Sleep and Its Roots in Second Temple Era Literature.” Journal for the Study of Judaism 51, no. 1 (2020): 1–34. 

15)   “The Oven of Hakhinai: The Yerushalmi’s Accounts of the Banning of R. Eliezer.” Journal of Jewish Studies 71, no. 1 (2020): 25–52. 

16)  “Haderekh le-Lod, sipuro shel nitzol: Berihato shel Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai mi-Yerushalayim, al pi midrash Eikha Rabba 1:5.” Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature 31 (2020): 27–64 (HEB, in print). 

17)  “The Death of Beruriah and Its Afterlife: A Reevaluation of the Provenance and Significance of Ma‘aseh de-Beruriah.” Jewish Quarterly Review 110, no. 3 (2020): 383–411 (in print).            

18) “You Can’t Go Home Again: The Bavli’s Story of Honi’s Big Sleep as Inversion of the Yerushalmi’s Account.” Journal of Jewish Studies 72 (2021) 257-282.

19) “‘These and Those Are the Words of the Living God, but…’: Meaning, Background, and Reception of an Early Rabbinic Teaching.” AJS Review 45 (2021) 382-410.

20) “The Tradition vs. Individual Talent: Narrative Point of View and the Ideological Counter-Voice in the Story of R. Dosa ben Harkinas (bYevamot 16a).” Jewish Quarterly Review 112 (2022) 261-288.

21) “‘On That Day’: The Deeds of the Seventy-Two (m.Yadayim 3:5–4:4) as Foundational Narrative for Rabbinic Judaism.” Jewish Studies Quarterly 29 (2022) 109-134.

22) “Mi-mehutan le-behor satan: Ha-mahloqet al tsarat ha-bat be-sifrut ha-Eretz 34, 2022, 59-81.

23) “Halakha and Aggada in Tannaic sources,” The Literature of the Sages; a Re-Visioning. Edited by Christine Hayes. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022, 463-543.

24) “The Tradition vs. Individual talent: narrative point of view and the ideological counter-voice in the story of R. Dosa ben Harkinas ("bYevamot" 16a). Jewish Quarterly Review 112,2 (2022) 256-259.

25)  "This parable should not be considered a small thing in your eyes": Towards a Rhetorical Poetics of the Mashal” Oqimta 10, 2024, 211-241.

Reviews of Books in periodicals

1) Talmudic Stories: Narrative Art, Composition, and Culture, by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, and Women and Womanhood in the Talmud, by Shulamit Valler. AJS Review 26, no. 1 (2002): 129–31.

2) Narratives of Truth in Islamic Law, edited by Baudouin Dupret, Barbara Drieskens, and Annelies Moors, and Law and Truth in Biblical and Rabbinic Literature, by Chaya T. Halberstam. Journal of Law and Religion 28, no. 2 (2013): 365–72.