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The Mishnah or the Mishna ( / ˈmɪʃnə /; Hebrew: מִשְׁנָה, "study by repetition", from the verb shanah שנה , or "to study and review", also "secondary") [1] is the first major written collection of the Jewish oral traditions that are known as the Oral Torah. It is also the first major work of rabbinic literature. [2]
- Judah ha-Nasi
Judah ha-Nasi (Hebrew: יְהוּדָה הַנָּשִׂיא, Yəhūḏā...
- Minor Tractate
While they are mishnaic in form and are called "tractates,"...
- Judah ha-Nasi
Language of the Mishnah. The language in which the Tannaim of Israel and Babylonia wrote is referred to as Mishnaic Hebrew (MH), or in Hebrew Lešon hakhamim, meaning the language of the Sages. Texts were written in MH between roughly 70 CE and 500 CE.
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Mishnaic Hebrew (MH) is the language of the Tannaim and Amoraim in Palestine and Babylonia. The Hebrew name for the language of these writings is Lešon hakhamim, meaning “the language of the Sages.”. Literature in MH covers a period of about 450 years, roughly between 70 ce and 500 ce. The literature of the Tannaim – which includes the ...
- Moshe Bar-Asher
- 2006
Sep 12, 2021 · Study the Mishnah. The Mishnah is a third-century Jewish collection that expands upon the legal material and language of the Old Testament and is considered to be “oral Torah.”. Mishnah (the Hebrew term מִשְׁנָה means “study by repetition”) is the foundation of all subsequent Jewish law and praxis, from the Talmuds up to modern ...
The eminent Judaica scholar Jacob Neusner provides here the first form-analytical translation of the Mishnah. This pathbreaking edition provides as close to a literal translation as possible, following the syntax of Mishnaic Hebrew in its highly formalized and syntactically patterned language. Demon...
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- Jacob Neusner
The Mishnah, universally attributed to the editorial hand of Rabbi Judah, Patriarch of the Jewish community in Palestine in the late second to the early third century, is the earliest redacted record of rabbinic opinion. The name “Mishnah,” from the Hebrew root sh-n-h, meaning “to repeat,” was used in early rabbinic circles to refer to ...
The eminent Judaica scholar Jacob Neusner provides here the first form-analytical translation of the Mishnah. This path-breaking edition provides as close to a literal translation as possible,...
