This is a compilation of studies on the Mishna in Tractate Horayot.

This volume includes a selection of articles dealing with general questions regarding the redaction and the development of talmudic literature and with specific issues relating to different aspects of the editing and the transmission of certain talmudic w

The book is an interpretation of the creation, formation and redaction of tractate Ta'anit in the Palestinian Talmud. It explores the voices heard in the text: the quoted amora, the transmitter of the tradition, and the anonymous voice the stamma. It exa

This book deals with rabbinic enactments and prohibitions from the Second Temple period, designed to separate Jews from gentiles, from their practices and from their culture, e.g. the prohibitions of eating with a gentile, or partaking of a gentile's brea

The book deals with the halakhic and exegetical meanings underlying the halakhic Midrashim and shows how they enhance the understanding of the plain meaning of the Mishna. It also traces the development of halakhic concepts and their changes in Amoraic Li

The author devotes 22 chapters to detailed synoptic comparisons between parallel passages in the Mishna and the Tosefta, and discusses the history of the laws of the Passover Seder. With an introduction on the relationship between the Tosefta and the Mish

Collection of studies by renowned scholars on linguistic problems in Mishnaic Hebrew.