Frontmatter
Contributors
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Abbreviations for the Citation of Mishnah and Talmud
Part I The Mishnah and Its Predecessors
1. The Mishnah and the Bible
2. The Mishnah and Ancient Near Eastern Law
3. The Mishnah and the Dead Sea Scrolls
4. Mishnah and Tosefta
5. The Literary Evolution of the Mishnah
Part II Roman Context and History
6. The Presentation of the Past in the Mishnah
7. The Mishnah and Roman Law: A Rabbinic Compilation of ius civile for the Jewish civitas of the Land of Israel under Roman Rule
8. Mishnah and History
Part III Reading the Mishnah
9. The Rhetoric of the Mishnah
10. Mishnah as Utopia
11. Mishnah and Halakhah
12. Nomos and Mishnah: The Turn to Narrative in Recent Mishnah Scholarship
13. Holiness in the Mishnah
14. The Language of the Mishnah- Between Late Hebrew and Mishnaic Hebrew
Part IV The Presentation of Persons and Groups in the Mishnah
15. Priests and Pietists in the Mishnah
16. Mishnah, Women, Gender: What Are We Reading For, Where Are We Reading It?
17. Goyim in the Mishnah
18. "And Your People Are All Righteous": Heretics and Heresy in the Mishnah
Part V Reception and Transmission of the Mishnah
19. The Halakhic Midrashim and the Canonicity of the Mishnah
20. The Publication and Early Transmission of the Mishnah
21. The Reception of the Mishnah from the Geonic Period to the Age of Print
22. The Reception of the Mishnah in the Modern Era
Contributors
Index