| Preface | |
| Table of Contents | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Ch. 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | Casuistics and Generalizations: Tannaitic Beginnings | 47 |
| Ch. 3 | Classification and Legal Definition | 98 |
| Ch. 4 | Legal Fictions | 163 |
| Ch. 5 | Aspects of Rabbinic Explanation | 200 |
| Ch. 6 | Legal Analogy | 228 |
| Ch. 7 | Association and Conceptual Citations | 274 |
| Ch. 8 | Post-Tannaitic Concepts and Legal Principles | 293 |
| Ch. 9 | Coda | 343 |
| Bibliography | 367 |
| Index of Sources | 375 |
| Index of Modern Authors | 389 |
| Index of Hebrew and Aramaic Terms | 392 |
| Subject Index | 396 |