The Mishnah is the foundational document of rabbinic law and, one could say, of rabbinic Judaism itself. It is overwhelmingly technical and focused on matters of practice, custom, and law. The Oxford Annotated Mishnah is the first annotated translation of this work, making the text accessible to all.With explanations of all technical terms and expressions, The Oxford Annotated Mishnah brings together an expert group of translators and annotators to assemble a version of the Mishnah that requires no specialist knowledge.
The Mishnah is the foundational document of rabbinic law and, one could say, of rabbinic Judaism itself. It is overwhelmingly technical and focused on matters of practice, custom, and law. The Oxford Annotated Mishnah is the first annotated translation of this work, making the text accessible to all.With explanations of all technical terms and expressions, The Oxford Annotated Mishnah brings together an expert group of translators and annotators to assemble a version of the Mishnah that requires no specialist knowledge.
Introduction
SEDER ZERA'IM
Richard Sarason: Berakhot
Greg E. Gardner: Pe'ah
Richard Sarason: Demai
Michael Rosenberg: Kilayim
Ya'ir Furstenberg: Shevi'it
Matthew Hass and Will Friedman: Terumot
Joshua Kulp: Ma'aserot
Joshua Kulp: Ma'aser Sheni
Joshua Kulp: Hallah
Joshua Kulp: Orlah
Naftali S. Cohn: Bikkurim
SEDER MO'ED
Shaye J.D. Cohen: Shabbat
Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert: Eruvin
Jonathan Klawans: Pesahim
Miriam-Simma Walfish: Sheqalim
Yonatan Miller: Yoma
Jeffrey Rubenstein: Sukkah
Judith Hauptman: Betsah
Steven Fraade: Rosh Hashanah
David Levine: Ta'anit
Alyssa Gray: Megillah
Gail Labovitz: Mo'ed Qatan
Michal Bar-Asher Siegal: Hagigah
SEDER NASHIM
Tal Ilan: Yevamot
Robert Brody: Ketubbot
Robert Goldenberg: Nedarim
Robert Goldenberg: Nazir
Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Orr Scharf: Sotah
David Brodsky: Gittin
Gail Labovitz: Qiddushin
SEDER NEZIQIN
Hayim Lapin: Bava Qamma
Hayim Lapin: Bava Metsi'a
Hayim Lapin: Bava Batra
Beth Berkowitz: Sanhedrin
David Flatto: Makkot
Elizabeth Shanks Alexander: Shevu'ot
Shaye J.D. Cohen: Eduyot
Christine Hayes: Avodah Zarah
Martin Jaffee: Avot
Alyssa Gray: Horayot
SEDER QODASHIM
Aryeh Cohen: Zevahim
Dvora Weisberg: Menahot
Jordan Rosenblum: Hullin
Chaya Halberstam: Bekhorot
Jonah Steinberg: Arakhin
Tzvi Novick: Temurah
Moulie Vidas: Keritot
Sarra Lev: Me'ilah
Naftali Cohn: Tamid
Naftali Cohn: Middot
Dalia Marx: Qinnim
SEDER TOHOROT
Michael Chernick: Kelim
Yehudah Cohn: Oholot
Mira Balberg: Nega'im
Mordecai Schwartz: Parah
Yair Furstenberg: Tohorot
Yonatan Adler: Miqva'ot
Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert: Niddah
Hannah Harrington: Makhshirin
Shlomo Zuckier: Zavim
David Levine: Tevul Yom
Leib Moscovitz: Yadayim
Richard Hidary: Uqtsin
APPENDICES
Herbert Danby: Index of Biblical Passages
Robert Goldenberg and Leonard Gordon: Glossary of Untranslated
Hebrew Terms
Herbert Danby: Weights, Measures, and Currency
Index of Subjects
Shaye Cohen is Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and
Philosophy, Harvard University. He previously taught at Brown
University and the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He is
widely recognized as one of the leading scholars of ancient Judaism
in the USA. The late Robert Goldenberg retired in 2012 from a long
and successful career of teaching Judaica and history at Stony
Brook University. His main research interest was the history of
Jews and Judaism in
the Greco-Roman and late antique worlds. He also taught at the
Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He was a former co-editor
of the AJSReview. Hayim Lapin is Professor of History and Robert
H.
Smith Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland. He
has written extensively on rabbinic law and its social and economic
contexts. Lapin also works in the field of digital humanities, with
particular interest in editing and study of texts.
In their three-volume work, the editors of The Oxford Annotated
Mishnah (OAM) have produced a very helpful resource for anyone
interested in the Mishnah. It is an academically informed yet
highly accessible new translation of the Mishnah, with accompanying
introductions for each tractate and annotations throughout the
text.
*Andrew Messner, Academic Dean, Seville Theological Seminary,
Evangelical Review of Theology*
One innovative and praiseworthy feature of the translation in The
Oxford Annotated Mishnah is that it tries, often successfully, to
emulate the Mishnah's economy of language... The Oxford Annotated
Mishnah is a significant event in the history of Mishnah
interpretation. Never before has such an illustrious cadre of
scholars joined forces to create such a work.
*Yitz Landes, Jewish Review of Books*
The Oxford Annotated Mishnah is surely the new standard English
edition of this foundational rabbinic anthology.
*Daniel M. Gurtner, Religious Studies Review*
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