Uniting The Dual Torah: Sifra And The Problem Of The Mishnah

Book Summary


In this book Jacob Neusner analyzes the text of Sifra, a commentary on the book of Leviticus, arguing that Sifra should be understood as successfully relating the Mishnah, the authoritative writing down of the Oral Torah, to Jewish Scripture, or the written Torah. Neusner shows how Sifra's authors adopted a mediating position between the written Torah and the Mishnah, reconstructing large tracts of the Mishnah according to the logic and program of the written Torah of Leviticus.

Book Details


Book Name Uniting The Dual Torah: Sifra And The Problem Of The Mishnah
Author Jacob Neusner
Publisher Cambridge University Press (Nov 1990)
ISBN 9780521381253
Pages 245
Language English
Price 5186
 
 

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