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

This collection includes a selection of some of the articles that Prof. Moshe Beer published in his lifetime. His research deals with the history of the Jewish people in the periods of the Second Temple, the Mishnah and the Talmud in Eretz Israel and Baby

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 is based on the findings of a study on the existence of marketing activities and initiatives in Jewish society in Palestine during the Mishna and Talmud era. It includes a number of subjects relating to economic and marketing activities, such as

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

This book sets out to clarify the text of the Jerusalem Tractate Ma'asrot in its historical context. It includes a commentary to the Mishna and the Talmud. The texts are based on the Leiden MS, with variant readings, portions from the Genizah and The Vene

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

Explanation and analysis of the principles of the talmudic legal system which appear in the Talmud in a casuistic and incomplete manner. Reveals the inner logic and order underlying Talmudic discussions of the laws governing human social behavior.

This book sets out to analyse the working of the judiciary during the period of the Mishna and Talmud, revealing the functions of the judges, the basis of their authority, their courts and their place in the legislative process.