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What is the Mishnah: The State of the Question?
Edited by Shaye J. D. Cohen
CONTENTS:
Part I. The Mishnah and Its Predecessors
1. Tzvi Novick: The Mishnah and the Bible
2. Jonathan S. Milgram: The Mishnah and Ancient Near Eastern Law
3. Vered Noam: The Mishnah and the Dead Sea Scrolls
4. Shamma Friedman: Mishnah and Tosefta
5. Yair Furstenberg: The Literary Evolution of the Mishnah
Part II. Roman Context and History
6. Martin Goodman: The Presentation of the Past in the Mishnah
7. Catherine Hezser: The Mishnah and Roman Law
8. Hayim Lapin: Mishnah and History
Part III. Reading the Mishnah
9. Beth A. Berkowitz: The Rhetoric of the Mishnah
10. Naftali Cohn: Mishnah as Utopia
11. Moshe Halbertal: Mishnah and Halakhah
12. Moshe Simon-Shoshan: Nomos and Mishnah
13. Sarit Kattan Gribetz: Holiness in the Mishnah
14. Elitzur A. Bar-Asher: The Language of the Mishnah
Part IV. The Presentation of Persons and Groups in the Mishnah
15. Jonathan Klawans: Priests and Pietists in the Mishnah
16. Gail Labovitz: Mishnah, Women, Gender
17. Ishay Rosen-Zvi: Goyim in the Mishnah
18. Adiel Schremer: Heretics and Heresy in the Mishnah
Part V. Reception and Transmission of the Mishnah
19. Azzan Yadin-Israel: The Halakhic Midrashim and the Canonicity of the Mishnah
20. David Stern: The Publication and Early Transmission of the Mishnah
21. Uziel Fuchs: The Reception of the Mishnah from the Geonic Period to the Age of Print
22. Chanan Gafni: The Reception of the Mishnah in the Modern Era