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What is the Mishnah? : the state of the question : the proceedings of a conference at Harvard University
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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 t...
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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- edited by Shaye J.D. Cohen.
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- English
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- 1st ed
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2022]
- ©2022
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- 1 online resource (545 pages)
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- 0674278771, 9780674293700, 9780674293717, 9780674278776, 0674293703, 0674293711
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- on1372494099, on1374540220
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Frontmatter -- Contributors -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Abbreviations for the Citation of Mishnah and Talmud -- Part I The Mishnah and Its Predecessors -- 1. The Mishnah and the Bible -- 2. The Mishnah and Ancient Near Eastern Law -- 3. The Mishnah and the Dead Sea Scrolls -- 4. Mishnah and Tosefta -- 5. The Literary Evolution of the Mishnah -- Part II Roman Context and History -- 6. The Presentation of the Past in the Mishnah -- 7. The Mishnah and Roman Law: A Rabbinic Compilation of ius civile for the Jewish civitas of the Land of Israel under Roman Rule -- 8. Mishnah and History -- Part III Reading the Mishnah -- 9. The Rhetoric of the Mishnah -- 10. Mishnah as Utopia -- 11. Mishnah and Halakhah -- 12. Nomos and Mishnah: The Turn to Narrative in Recent Mishnah Scholarship -- 13. Holiness in the Mishnah -- 14. The Language of the Mishnah— Between Late Hebrew and Mishnaic Hebrew -- Part IV The Presentation of Persons and Groups in the Mishnah -- 15. Priests and Pietists in the Mishnah -- 16. Mishnah, Women, Gender: What Are We Reading For, Where Are We Reading It? -- 17. Goyim in the Mishnah -- 18. “And Your People Are All Righteous”: Heretics and Heresy in the Mishnah -- Part V Reception and Transmission of the Mishnah -- 19. The Halakhic Midrashim and the Canonicity of the Mishnah -- 20. The Publication and Early Transmission of the Mishnah -- 21. The Reception of the Mishnah from the Geonic Period to the Age of Print -- 22. The Reception of the Mishnah in the Modern Era -- Index