The Mishnah in contemporary perspective / / edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner.

The authors of the studies on the Mishnah collected in the present volumes represent the best of contemporary scholarship on that document. In the past thirty years, the Mishnah seen as a document on its own terms has taken its place as a principal focus in the academic study of religion and of Juda...

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Superior document:Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, Near and Middle East, Volume 65
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, Massachusetts ;, Koln, [Germany] : : Brill,, 2002.
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Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:Handbuch der Orientalistik. Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; Volume 65.
Physical Description:1 online resource (288 pages).
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material / Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner
  • THE MISHNAH VIEWED WHOLE / JACOB NEUSNER
  • THE DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE AND SECOND CENTURY JUDAISM: THE HOLINESS OF THE DEVASTATED LAND / ALAN J. AVERY-PECK
  • THE MISHNAH IN RABBINIC CONTEXT: TOSEFTA AND SIFRA / JACOB NEUSNER
  • THE MISHNAH IN ROMAN AND CHRISTIAN CONTEXTS / JACOB NEUSNER
  • APPENDIX: ROMAN LEGAL CODIFICATION IN THE SECOND CENTURY / STEPHEN A. STERTZ
  • THE MISHNAH AND ANCIENT BOOK PRODUCTION / CATHERINE HEZSER
  • THE MISHNAH IN THE LATER MIDRASHIM / RIVKA ULMER
  • AN AESTHETIC USAGE OF SCRIPTURES IN THE ANCIENT RABBINIC LEGAL CODES / HERBERT W. BASSER
  • MASTER AND PARENT: COMPARATIVE ASPECTS OF A DUAL LOYALTY (MISHNAH BABA MEZIAH 2:11 AND MARK 3:31-35) / GERALD J. BLIDSTEIN
  • GENERAL INDEX / Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner
  • HANDBOOK OF ORIENTAL STUDIES (HANDBUCH DER ORIENTALISTIK) / DER NAHE and MITTLERE OSTEN.