The Mishnah in contemporary perspective. / Vol. 2 / / edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner.

• Superior document: Handbook of oriental studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East, v. 87
• TeilnehmendeR: Avery-Peck, Alan J. 1953-; Neusner, Jacob, 1932-
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; 87. Bd.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This second volume of a two-part project on the Mishnah displays a broad selection of approaches to the study of the Mishnah in the contemporary academy. The work derives from Israel, North America, and Europe and shows the intellectual vitality of scholarship in all three centers of learning. What these articles show in diverse ways is that the Mishnah forms a critical focus of the study of Judaism. The authors of these studies represent the best of contemporary scholarship on the Mishnah. Because of the many viewpoints included here, this is the most representative selection of contemporary Mishnah-study available in any collection in a Western language.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner -- ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE: THE YAVNEH CONUNDRUM, BIRKAT HAMMINIM, AND THE PROBLEM OF TALMUDIC HISTORIOGRAPHY / Daniel Boyarin -- ON THE QUALITY OF THE RABBINIC TEXT: THE OPENING OF THE MISHNAH / Dalia Hoshen -- THE CONSTRUCTION OF HOUSEHOLDS IN THE MISHNAH / Hayim Lapin -- THE MISHNAH IN HISTORICAL AND RELIGIOUS CONTEXT / Jacob Neusner -- THE STRUCTURE AND IMPLICIT MESSAGE OF MISHNAH TRACTATE NAZIR / Simcha Fishbane -- ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE MISHNAH’S HALAKHIC TRADITION: THE CASE OF STONE VESSELS AND RITUAL BATHS / Eyal Regev -- THE POETICS OF THE MISHNAH / Avraham Walfish -- WHY WE CANNOT ASSUME THE HISTORICAL RELIABILITY OF ATTRIBUTIONS: THE CASE OF THE HOUSES IN MISHNAH-TOSEFTA MAKHSHIRIN / Jacob Neusner -- SUBJECT INDEX / Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner.