From the Maccabees to the Mishnah PDF book is popular Religion book written by Shaye J. D. Cohen. The book was released by Westminster John Knox Press on 1987-01-01 with total hardcover pages 260. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read From the Maccabees to the Mishnah by Shaye J. D. Cohen in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
This book explores the period from the 160s to 63 B.C.E., when the Maccabees ruled the Jews, up to the publication of the Mishnah in the second century C.E.
This volume offers a systematic and detailed description of early rabbinic hermeneutics as it can be reconstructed from the Mishnah (third century c.e.). Samely
In this compelling study, Jacob Neusner argues that economics is an active and generative ingredient of the system of the Mishnah. The Mishnah directly addresse
Judith Hauptman argues that the Tosefta, a collection dating from approximately the same time period as the Mishnah and authored by the same rabbis, is not late
The Mishnah is the foundational document of rabbinic Judaism—rabbinic law is based on the Talmud which, in turn, is based on the Mishnah. Yet its sources, gen
