@inbook{0c7c53c5250f417aad020ebdb8570868,
title = "The State of Mishnah Studies",
abstract = "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.",
keywords = "Edited anthology, Jewish law, Mishnah, Rabbinic judaism, Sedarim",
author = "Amram Tropper",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The British Academy, 2010. All rights reserved.",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.5871/bacad/9780197264744.003.0007",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780197264744",
series = "Proceedings of the British Academy",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
pages = "91--115",
booktitle = "Rabbinic Texts and the History of Late-Roman Palestine",
address = "United Kingdom",
}