Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contributors v
3. Contents vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction xi
6. Abbreviations for the Citation of Mishnah and Talmud xv
7. Part I The Mishnah and Its Predecessors
8. 1. The Mishnah and the Bible 3
9. 2. The Mishnah and Ancient Near Eastern Law 23
10. 3. The Mishnah and the Dead Sea Scrolls 47
11. 4. Mishnah and Tosefta 73
12. 5. The Literary Evolution of the Mishnah 98
13. Part II Roman Context and History
14. 6. The Presentation of the Past in the Mishnah 129
15. 7. The Mishnah and Roman Law: A Rabbinic Compilation of ius civile for the Jewish civitas of the Land of Israel under Roman Rule 141
16. 8. Mishnah and History 167
17. Part III Reading the Mishnah
18. 9. The Rhetoric of the Mishnah 187
19. 10. Mishnah as Utopia 204
20. 11. Mishnah and Halakhah 232
21. 12. Nomos and Mishnah: The Turn to Narrative in Recent Mishnah Scholarship 253
22. 13. Holiness in the Mishnah 275
23. 14. The Language of the Mishnah— Between Late Hebrew and Mishnaic Hebrew 305
24. Part IV The Presentation of Persons and Groups in the Mishnah
25. 15. Priests and Pietists in the Mishnah 329
26. 16. Mishnah, Women, Gender: What Are We Reading For, Where Are We Reading It? 354
27. 17. Goyim in the Mishnah 379
28. 18. “And Your People Are All Righteous”: Heretics and Heresy in the Mishnah 401
29. Part V Reception and Transmission of the Mishnah
30. 19. The Halakhic Midrashim and the Canonicity of the Mishnah 425
31. 20. The Publication and Early Transmission of the Mishnah 444
32. 21. The Reception of the Mishnah from the Geonic Period to the Age of Print 471
33. 22. The Reception of the Mishnah in the Modern Era 489
34. Contributors 511
35. Index 517