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Early Rabbinic Civil Law

Hayim Lapin

Open Access

Contents

Cover
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Publishers’ Preface
Preface
Chapter I: Introduction: The Social Study of the Mishnah
- A. Definitions and Historical Background
- B. Methodology
  - 1. The Mishnah as a literary artifact.
  - 2. The Mishnah as a historical document.
  - 3. The limitations of this study and areas for future research.
Chapter II: Mishnah Tractate Babaʾ Meṣiʿaʾ: Literary and Redactional Problems
- A. Sources in the Mishnah
  - 1. Context, terminology, style.
  - 2. Parallels.
- B. The Shape of Sources
  - 1. Strategies.
  - 2. Nominative absolute (article + participle) series.
- C. Traces of the Redactional Process
  - 1. Codas.
  - 2. Glosses, revisions, corrections.
  - 3. Redaction as literary creation.
- D. The Problem of Attributions
  - 1. Catalogue of attributed statements.
  - 2. Attributed statements in m. Babaʾ Meṣiʿaʾ.
  - 3. Attributions and the nominative absolute series.
- E. Conclusions: The Mishnah as a Literary Artifact
Chapter III: Institutions and Relationships in Mishnah Tractate Babaʾ Meṣiʿaʾ
Chapter IV: Conclusions: Rabbinic Civil Law and the Social History of Roman Galilee
Appendix I: Mishnah Tractate Babaʾ Meṣiʿaʾ : Text, Translation, and Annotation
Appendix II: Mishnah Tractate Babaʾ Meṣiʿaʾ and Other “Tannaitic” Corpora
Abbreviations and Bibliography
Index of Primary Sources
Index of Subjects

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Published: 1995

Publisher: Brown Judaic Studies

ISBN(s)

978-1-946527-56-1 (ebook)
978-1-946527-57-8 (PDF)

Subject

Religion

Resources

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