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Description

2 v. ; 24 cm.

Series

Handbook of oriental studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East, 0169-9423 ; v. 65, 87

Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; 65. Bd.

Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; 87. Bd.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

[V. 1] [VOL. 65] 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. v. 2. [VOL. 87] 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

Mishnah -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History.

Added Author

Avery-Peck, Alan J. (Alan Jeffery), 1953-

Neusner, Jacob, 1932-2016.

ISBN

9004125159 (v. 1 : alk. paper)

9789004125155 (v. 1 : alk. paper)

9789004152205 (v. 2)

9004152202 (v. 2)