The Mishnah: Religious Perspectives (Handbook of Oriental Studies - Handbuch der Orientalistik)

THE MISHNAH: RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
I. Category-Formations of the Halakhah Wholly Framed by the Written Torah......Page 14
a. Horayot......Page 16
b. Negaim......Page 17
c. Pesahim......Page 19
d. Shebuot......Page 21
e. Sotah......Page 22
f. Sukkah......Page 24
g. Yoma......Page 25
II. What the Oral Torah Did Not Contribute......Page 27
III. Category-Formations of the Halakhah Wholly Defined within the Oral Torah......Page 29
IV. Categories that Encompass in their System Facts Set forth in Scripture: [1] Berakhot......Page 31
V. Categories that Encompass in their System Facts Set forth in Scripture: [2] Taanit......Page 35
VI. The Oral Torah Forms a Category out of Scripture's Topic: Tamid......Page 37
VII. Categories beyond Scripture's Framework but Subordinate to Scripture's Own Categories: Demai......Page 39
VIII. The Oral, Torah's Own Categories: [1] Scripture's Imperatives without Scripture's Facts. Tohorot......Page 42
IX. The Oral Torah's Own Categories: [2] Uqsin......Page 45
X. The Oral Torah's Own Categories: [3] Ketubot......Page 47
XI. The Oral Torah's Original Categories: [4] Qiddushin......Page 49
XII. The Oral Torah's Original Categories......Page 51
XIII. The Oral Torah Systematizes the Written Torah's Category-Formations, Spirit and Letter Alike: The Four Interstitial Categories......Page 52
a. Subordinate but Not Concentric Expositions of the Same Category-Formations......Page 53
c. Received Letter, New Spirit: The Asymmetrical Category-Formations of the Oral Torah......Page 54
d. A Fresh Statement out of a Familiar Topic and Routine Exposition Thereof......Page 55
a. Abodah Zarah......Page 56
b. Arakhin......Page 59
c. Bekhorot......Page 60
d. Bikkurim......Page 61
e. Keritot......Page 62
f. Maaser Sheni......Page 64
g. Meilah......Page 65
h. Menahot......Page 67
j. Peak......Page 68
k. Rosh Hashanah......Page 69
l. Shebiˁit......Page 70
n. Yebamot......Page 71
XV. Where the. Letter Gives Life to the Spirit......Page 72
XVI. Types of Independent Exposition of Received Category-Formations. When the Oral Torah Reorganizes the Written Torah's Category-Formation......Page 74
a. Baba Qamma-Baba Mesia-Baba Batra......Page 75
b. Hagigah......Page 81
c. Kelim......Page 83
d. Megillah......Page 88
e. Miqvaot......Page 90
f. Sanhedrin-Makkot......Page 92
g. Zebahim......Page 95
XVII. Kaleidoscopic Discourse......Page 99
XVIII. Same Letter, New Spirit: When the Oral Torah Asks its Own Questions about the Written Torah's Topical Program......Page 103
a. Besah......Page 104
b. Erubin......Page 106
c. Gittin......Page 109
d. Hallah......Page 113
e. Hullin......Page 115
f. Moed Qatan......Page 118
g. Maaserot......Page 120
h. Makhshirin......Page 122
i. Ohalot......Page 124
j. Parah......Page 128
k. Shabbat......Page 131
XIX. Old Dog, New Tricks......Page 138
a. Kilayim......Page 143
b. Orlah......Page 145
c. Tebul Yom......Page 148
d. Temurah......Page 151
e. Terumot......Page 152
f. Yadayim......Page 155
g. Zabim and Niddah......Page 160
XXI. Original Variations on Borrowed Themes......Page 167
I. The Starting Point: Second Temple Times......Page 170
II. Methodological Foundations: Correlating Sequences of Sages with Sequences of Rulings......Page 174
III. Rabbinic Judaism in Second Temple Times?......Page 178
IV. The Phenomenological Reading: A quo......Page 181
V. The Historical Reading: Ad quem......Page 185
VI. Constructing Categories for Comparison and Contrast: The Systemic Approach......Page 192
VII. The Formative History of the Halakhic Category-Formations......Page 193
VIII. Vie Halakhah before 70......Page 196
IX. The Interim-Category-Formation: The Halakhah between the Wars of 66-70 and 132-135......Page 200
X. The Halakhah of the Mid-Second Century: The Halakhah's Fully-Realized Category-Formation in Structure and System......Page 206
XI. The Oral Torah Seen Whole: The Restoration of Eden through the Reconstruction of Israel's Social Order......Page 218
XII. One Whole Torah, Oral and Written?......Page 220
I. Formulation and Transmission of the Mishnah: By Whom, For What?......Page 224
II. Rhetoric and Reality......Page 229
III. Form and Meaning......Page 242
IV. Language, Reality, and Power......Page 246
V. Language Becomes ontology......Page 252
Abbreviations......Page 258
Index......Page 260
Back Matter......Page 264