Mishnah
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text · 16 illegible passages, excluded from answers
- Extent:
- ~680,000 words · 3,252 passages
Cite this work
- APATanakh. (n.d.). Mishnah. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/tanakh/the-mishnah
- MLATanakh. "Mishnah." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/tanakh/the-mishnah.
- ChicagoTanakh. Mishnah. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/tanakh/the-mishnah.
What it is about
The first great compilation of the Jewish oral law, arranged in six orders: seeds, festivals, women, damages, holy things and purity.
Context and history
It was fixed around the year 200, and tradition ascribes its redaction to Judah ha-Nasi. It is not a code that settles matters: it records the opinions of rabbis who disagree and often sets them side by side without ruling. It is the base layer of the Talmud — the Gemara is the later debate over these very pages — so reading it alone gives the law without the argument that goes with it.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
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