“The term ma’aseh is the intrusion of real life events into the largely theoretical in hypothetical discourse of the Mishnah”
The term ma’aseh is the intrusion of real life events into the largely theoretical...
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“Philologists can sometimes forget that texts are not themselves autonomous subjects that move here and there, or chameleons that change color to fit the scenery”
Philologists can sometimes forget that texts are not themselves autonomous subjects that move here...
“It is the Babylonian Talmud that collects the traditions on Hanukkah and creates a lengthy, detailed and coherent discourse on the holiday…”
The rabbinic sources on Hanukkah, which are not numerous, are unevenly dispersed among the...
“It is exceedingly difficult to differentiate on formal or stylistic grounds among the layers of the Mishnah…”
It is exceedingly difficult to differentiate on formal or stylistic grounds among the layers...
The meaning of Mishnah
The Hebrew word shanah ‘to repeat’ in its technical sense means to learn (e.g....
“One of the remarkable characteristics of the Mishnah is how little information the text reveals about itself, its origins, authors, history, sources, and social setting”
One of the remarkable characteristics of the Mishnah is how little information the text...
There were “two different interpretive approaches were available to amoraim and stammaim who needed to disagree with the anonymous view of the Mishnah”
…we find that two different interpretive approaches were available to amoraim and stammaim who...
“Shabbat, as seen through the Mishnah, does not prescribe actions”
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Shabbat as framed by the opening mishnah of Tractate Shabbat is not something that...The Rabbinic Shabbat is “not comprised of positive ritualized actions”
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The Rabbinic Shabbat, as found in the Mishnah and in the Bavli is not...“While most Amoraim were familiar with the mishnayot of the sedarim…such familiarity was not universal”
While most Amoraim were familiar with the mishnayot of the sedarim which formed the curriculum of Amoraim study, such familiarity was not universal. … Even when a relevant mishnah is cited, it is not always verbatim. …
The difference between the Bavli’s citation of mishnayot and those of Toseftan baraitot is that the text of the Mishnah has been transmitted along with that of the Bavli from the earliest times.
Yaakov Elman, Authority and Tradition: Toseftan Baraitot in Talmudic Babylonian (New York: The Michael Scharf Publication Trust of the Yeshiva University Press; Hoboken, NJ: Ktav Publishing House, 1994), 48.