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Deborah Barer, "Going Off Script: Improvisational Judgment in the Talmud" (Oxford UP, 2026) artwork
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Deborah Barer, "Going Off Script: Improvisational Judgment in the Talmud" (Oxford UP, 2026)

New Books in Critical Theory

Aug 8, 202651:48Science & Medicine

What does it really mean to go "beyond the letter of the law"? In this episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sits down with scholar Deborah Barer to discuss her book Going Off Script: Improvisational Judgment in the Talmud, which off...

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Deborah Barer, "Going Off Script: Improvisational Judgment in the Talmud" (Oxford UP, 2026) is an episode from New Books in Critical Theory. What does it really mean to go "beyond the letter of the law"? In this episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sit...

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Published Aug 8, 2026, 51:48 long, audio available.

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