The Tosefta
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The Tosefta   -     By: Jacob Neusner

The Tosefta

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The importance of the Tosefta for literary, historical, and religious scholarship has long been known, and this two individual volume set makes it even more accessible to many more readers.

The work is a vital supplement to the early rabbinic oral tradition first set to writing in the Mishnah at the end of the second century of the Common Era. Dating to about 220 CE and also set in the Tannaic period, the Tosefta has the same six "orders" and essentially the same "tractates" as the Mishnah, often agreeing with it, but sometimes differing significantly in its understanding of the oral tradition.

This English translation of the Mishnaic Hebrew (with some Aramaic) is not merely a paraphrase, but aims at a literal rendition into English of the formulary patterns and syntactical traits of the original text. It contains complete references to the passages in the Tosefta that cite verbatim the corresponding unit in the Mishnah, which is printed in italics. The Tosefta is crucial to the study of formative rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity.

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Title: The Tosefta
By: Jacob Neusner
Format: Paperback
Vendor: Hendrickson Publishers
Publication Date: 2013
Weight: 4 pounds 15 ounces
ISBN: 1619702622
ISBN-13: 9781619702622
Stock No: WW702622

Author Bio

Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology, Bard College, and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College. He has published more than eight hundred books and innumerable articles, and he is editor of The Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period and the three-volume Encyclopaedia of Judaism. He has also served as President of the American Academy of Religion, and was appointed as Member of the National Council on the Humanities and the National Council on the Arts.

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