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The Vitality of Rabbinic Imagination: The Mishnah Against the Bible and Qumran »
Authors: Jacob Neusner
ISBN-13: 9780761831181, ISBN-10: 0761831185
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University Press of America
Date Published: February 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Jacob Neusner
Book Synopsis
Assessed against comparable documents of Scripture and the Qumran library, the Mishnah shows itself as a triumph of imagination. It exhibits remarkable capacity to think in new and astonishing ways about familiar things. This study compares the Mishnah to four biblical codes and two codes found among the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Table of Contents
| 1 | The Mishnah's indicative traits | 1 |
| 2 | The book of the covenant (Ex. 20:22-23:33) and Mishnah-Tractate Baba Qamma | 19 |
| 3 | The Priestly code (Lev. 1-15) and Mishnah-tractate Menahot | 33 |
| 4 | The holiness code (Lev. 17-26) and Mishnah-tractates Baba Mesia and Kilayim | 63 |
| 5 | The Deuteronomic code (Dt. 12-26) and Mishnah-tractates Gittin and Hullin | 85 |
| 6 | The Damascus covenant (CD) and Mishnah-tractate Shabbat | 105 |
| 7 | The manual of discipline (1QS) and Mishnah- and Tosefta-tractate Demai and Mishnah-tractate Tohorot | 145 |
| App | The structure of the Deuteronomic law | 181 |
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