Contributors to this Issue ivAbbreviations vTransliterations viiIntroduction: Law as Literature William Scott Green 1Form Analysis and Exegesis: The Case of Mishnah Tohorot 2:2-8 Jacob Neusner 5Form as Meaning in Halakic Midrash: A Programmatic Statement Jack N. Lightstone 23Contemporary Exegesis of Talmudic Literature: The Work of Shamma Friedman, David Weiss Halivni, and Abraham WeissIntroduction: Metaphor and Exegesis Jacob Neusner 37The Work of Shamma FriedmanShamma Friedman's Methodological Principles David Weiner 45Shamma Friedman on b. Yebamot 87b-88a Louis Newman 53Shamma Friedman on b. Yebamot 88a-b Roger Brooks 63Shamma Friedman on b. Yebamot 88b-89a Judith Romney Wegner 77The Work of David Weiss Halivni: A Source-Critical Commentary to b. Yebamot 87b Louis Newman 93Abraham Weiss as Exegete and Text-Critic: The Case of b. Berakot 35b Roger Brooks Joseph M. Davis 103Redaction and Formulation: The Talmud of the Land of Israel and the Mishnah Jacob Neusner 117