Mishnah
Sign in to saveThe Mishnah (; , from the verb lišnot, "to repeat") is the first written collection of the Jewish oral traditions that are known as the Oral Torah. Having been collected in the 3rd century AD, it is the first work of rabbinic literature, written primarily in Mishnaic Hebrew but also partly in Jewish Aramaic. The oldest surviving physical fragments of it are from the 6th to 7th centuries. It is viewed as authoritative and binding revelation by most Orthodox Jews and some non-Orthodox Jews.
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The Mishnah is the first written collection of Jewish oral traditions, compiled in the 3rd century AD and written mainly in Hebrew and Aramaic. It serves as a foundational work of rabbinic literature that many Jews, particularly Orthodox Jews, regard as authoritative religious guidance.
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29 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Structure
- The six orders
- Content and purpose
- Oral law
- The Mishnah and the Hebrew Bible
- Authorship
- Mishnah studies
- Textual variants
- Manuscripts
- Printed editions
- Oral traditions and pronunciation
- As a historical source
- Criticism
- List of commentaries
- See also
- Notes
- Sources
- Resources
- English translations
- Historical study
- Recitation
- External links
- Wikimedia projects
- Digitised manuscripts
- Other electronic texts
- Mishnah study and the daily Mishnah
- Audio lectures
- Oral traditions and pronunciation
The Mishnah (; , from the verb lišnot, "to repeat") is the first written collection of the Jewish oral traditions that are known as the Oral Torah. Having been collected in the 3rd century AD, it is the first work of rabbinic literature, written primarily in Mishnaic Hebrew but also partly in Jewish Aramaic. The oldest surviving physical fragments of it are from the 6th to 7th centuries. It is viewed as authoritative and binding revelation by most Orthodox Jews and some non-Orthodox Jews.
The Mishnah was redacted by Judah ha-Nasi probably in Beit Shearim or Sepphoris, in the late second or early third century AD. in a time when the persecution of Jews and the passage of time raised the possibility that the details of the oral traditions of the Pharisees from the Second Temple period (516 BC – 70 AD) would be forgotten.