What Is the Mishnah?: The State of the Question

Published by Harvard University Press 2023

What Is the Mishnah?

The State of the Question

Edited by: Shaye J. D. Cohen

In the series Jewish Law and Culture Series

https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674293717

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About this book

The Mishnah is the foundational document of rabbinic Judaism—rabbinic law is based on the Talmud which, in turn, is based on the Mishnah. Yet its sources, genre, and purpose are obscure. What Is the Mishnah? collects papers by leading scholars from the United States, Europe, and Israel and gives a clear sense of the direction of Mishnah studies.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Abbreviations for the Citation of Mishnah and Talmud Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Part I The Mishnah and Its Predecessors
1. The Mishnah and the Bible Tzvi Novick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. The Mishnah and Ancient Near Eastern Law Jonathan S. Milgram Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
3. The Mishnah and the Dead Sea Scrolls Vered Noam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
4. Mishnah and Tosefta Shamma Friedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
5. The Literary Evolution of the Mishnah Yair Furstenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
Part II Roman Context and History
6. The Presentation of the Past in the Mishnah Martin Goodman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
7. The Mishnah and Roman Law: A Rabbinic Compilation of ius civile for the Jewish civitas of the Land of Israel under Roman Rule Catherine Hezser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
8. Mishnah and History Hayim Lapin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Part III Reading the Mishnah
9. The Rhetoric of the Mishnah Beth A. Berkowitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
10. Mishnah as Utopia Naftali S. Cohn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
11. Mishnah and Halakhah Moshe Halbertal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
12. Nomos and Mishnah: The Turn to Narrative in Recent Mishnah Scholarship Moshe Simon-Shoshan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
13. Holiness in the Mishnah Sarit Kattan Gribetz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
14. The Language of the Mishnah— Between Late Hebrew and Mishnaic Hebrew Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Part IV The Presentation of Persons and Groups in the Mishnah
15. Priests and Pietists in the Mishnah Jonathan Klawans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
16. Mishnah, Women, Gender: What Are We Reading For, Where Are We Reading It? Gail Labovitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	354
17. Goyim in the Mishnah Ishay Rosen-Zvi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
18. “And Your People Are All Righteous”: Heretics and Heresy in the Mishnah Adiel Schremer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	401
Part V Reception and Transmission of the Mishnah
19. The Halakhic Midrashim and the Canonicity of the Mishnah Azzan Yadin-Israel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425
20. The Publication and Early Transmission of the Mishnah David Stern Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	444
21. The Reception of the Mishnah from the Geonic Period to the Age of Print Uziel Fuchs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	471
22. The Reception of the Mishnah in the Modern Era Chanan Gafni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	489
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	511
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	517

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Pages
- Main content: 560

eBook

Published: March 7, 2023
ISBN: 9780674293717