What Is the Mishnah? : : The State of the Question / / ed. by Shaye J. D. Cohen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• MitwirkendeR: Berkowitz, Beth A.,; Cohn, Naftali S.,; Friedman, Shamma,; Fuchs, Uziel,; Furstenberg, Yair,; Gafni, Chanan,; Goodman, Martin,; Gribetz, Sarit Kattan,; Halbertal, Moshe,; Hezser, Catherine,; Klawans, Jonathan,; Labovitz, Gail,; Lapin, Hayim,; Milgram, Jonathan S.,; Noam, Vered,; Novick, Tzvi,; Rosen-Zvi, Ishay,; Schremer, Adiel,; Siegal, Elitzur A. Bar-Asher,; Simon-Shoshan, Moshe,; Stern, David,; Yadin-Israel, Azzan,
• HerausgeberIn: Cohen, Shaye J. D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish Law and Culture Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (560 p.)

The Mishnah is the foundational document of rabbinic Judaism—all of rabbinic law, from ancient to modern times, is based on the Talmud, and the Talmud, in turn, is based on the Mishnah. But the Mishnah is also an elusive document; its sources and setting are obscure, as are its genre and purpose.In January 2021 the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies and the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law of the Harvard Law School co-sponsored a conference devoted to the simple yet complicated question: “What is the Mishnah?” Leading scholars from the United States, Europe, and Israel assessed the state of the art in Mishnah studies; and the papers delivered at that conference form the basis of this collection. Learned yet accessible, What Is the Mishnah? gives readers a clear sense of current and future direction of Mishnah studies.

Table of Contents

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 -- Contributors -- Index