... with Jewish laws of agriculture. Another compilation of Jewish oral law as expounded by these same rabbis is the Tosefta (Supplement), which is organized similarly to the Mishna, but has traditional statements in a more expanded, often significantly varying form, supplemented...

... and social good will. The chapter also closely analyses an explicit exegetical and moral debate staged in the Tosefta between two distinct modes of judicial decision-making. The authoritative and legally precise judge who segregates himself from the litigants and enforces God’s law is set in opposition...

...0 27 02 2025 With the background of the immense gains in the study of Jewish, Christian, and pagan mysticism, the main sources of tannaitic mysticism in Mishna and Tosefta Ḥagiga are analyzed. We then compare these findings to Plotinus’s mystical moments, as portrayed by his third century...

...0 15 08 1996 As we have commented on numerous occasions, the Bavli stands at the end of a long and varied tradition. By the time of its composition, the rabbinic community had already produced the Mishnah, the Tosefta, halakhic midrashim on four of the Torah’s books, several major aggadic...

...This chapter analyses a block of halakhic rulings in the second chapter of Tractate Hullin in the Tosefta, which is devoted to minim. The chapter is devoted to a close examination of these rulings and their rhetoric, and it argues...

...This chapter describes the following Talmudic texts: the Mishnah; the Tosefta; the Talmud Yerushalmi/Palestinian Talmud; the Talmud Bavli/Babylonian Talmud; Minor Tractates; and external tractates (Tractate Derekh Erets...

...The calendar described in the Mishnah and Tosefta (early third century c.e.) is purely empirical, both in its intercalation procedure and in its determination of the new moon. But in the Amoraic period (third–fifth centuries), as attested in the Talmud, calendrical rules were introduced...

.... The chapter also provides categories for describing tacit ‘parallels’ between works of rabbinic Judaism, in particular between Mishnah and Tosefta. Josephus Mishnah Philo First Mishnah Hittite treaty Near East Near Eastern pseudepigraphy pseudepigraphic Brooke G Hoffner Jr H A Noll K L mKetubot 5 3...

...This chapter examines the reliability of using the tosefta for historical research. It explains that the tosefta is a compilation of early rabbinic legal traditions which date from the first to the early third century CE. It discusses the different manuscripts, editions and translations...

... issued in the name of prominent Pharisees. The matters dealt with (tithes and the liturgical year) are clearly priestly concerns, so if anyone was to be named, then one would expect it would have been the high priest. The implication of the Tosefta is that Gamliel was the most prominent religious...

...This chapter surveys references to Kings in rabbinic literature (Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmuds, and relevant midrashim). It also discusses the dynamics of rabbinic reception of these books and sketches the main themes and aspects of that reception. The chapter demonstrates that the relative...

...This chapter is devoted to a close reading of the single Tannaitic text (Tosefta, tractate Hullin, 2:22-24), in which followers of Jesus are designated as minim. It is argued that the two stories in that text construct the followers of Jesus...

... Tosefta Citation citationality Talmud Babylonian Babli Tanḥuma ʾAbot de Rabbi Natan Disciples discipleship Judaean Nero Vespasian Yabneh Yohanan b Zakkai Galilee Hebrew Hebraization Josephus Sepphoris Tiberias Pharisees Barayta Purity Sadducees Scribes scribal practice Hillelites New...

...This chapter studies the representations of the oral nature of rabbinic law (halakhah) and text‐interpretive tradition as found in the earliest extant rabbinic literary sources: the Mishnah and the Tosefta. In these early Tannaitic sources, the tradition of halakhah is represented in a variety...

...This chapter explores the context of the phrase, keneged kulam, of the first mishna of the tractate of Peah, that invests Torah study with ultimate value. More specifically, it tries to evoke from this text and the parallel in the Tosefta how exactly Torah study was carried out...

...; however, there is no systematic examination of the overall influence of Deuteronomy on writings in Early Rabbinic Judaism. Instead, scholars have focused on the history and range of views on specific legal issues in Deuteronomy. I will focus on how Tosefta, Mishnah...

...Slave parables are an important means of employing slave imagery for theological purposes. The large majority of these parables are transmitted in amoraic Midrashim, but some also appear in tannaitic Midrashim and in the Tosefta. This shows that the form of the slave parable was already known...

... concludes with an attempt to reconstruct an oral‐performative narrative that informs parallel written accounts of the red heifer ritual as described in Mishnah Parah and Tosefta Parah. RABBINIC LITERATURE composition oral and written Revelation Sinaitic Tradition writing memorization Reading...