The State of Mishnah Studies

Amram Tropper

doi:10.5871/bacad/9780197264744.003.0007

The State of Mishnah Studies

Amram Tropper

Department of Jewish History

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This chapter examines the current state of research into mishnah, the first major work of rabbinic Judaism. It explains that the mishnah is primarily an edited anthology of brief and often elliptical pronouncements on matters of Jewish law and practice, frequently providing conflicting views on the individual matters discussed. It discusses the six sedarim of the mishnah and mentions that the mishnah frequently digresses from its main topics at every level of the organisational hierarchy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Rabbinic Texts and the History of Late-Roman Palestine
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN (Electronic)	9780191734663
ISBN (Print)	9780197264744
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197264744.003.0007
State	Published - 2010

Keywords

Edited anthology
Jewish law
Mishnah
Rabbinic judaism
Sedarim

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Classics
Archaeology
History
Archaeology

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