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