The Talmud's Theological Language-Game -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Entering the Maze of Rabbinic Diction -- Introduction to a Religious Puzzle -- 1. What Is the Aggadah Problem? -- Part II: Scrutinizing Talmudic Aggadahat Three Levels -- 2. The Surface Characteristics -- 3. The Substantive Concerns -- 4. The "Logic" -- 5. Does Extending the Sample Alter the Findings? -- Part III: The Limits and Nature of Aggadah -- 6. Is Aggadic Discourse Self-Limiting? -- 7. Positively, What Is Aggadah? -- 8. Reconstruing the Aggadah Problem -- Afterwords -- Can We Theologize as the Rabbis Did? -- On Concluding -- Notes -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index of Text Citations -- Index of Subjects and Proper Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.