The Vitality of Rabbinic Imagination: The Mishnah Against the Bible and Qumran
Assessed against comparable documents of Scripture and the Qumran library, the Mishnah shows itself as a triumph of imagination. It exhibits remarkable capacity to think in new and astonishing ways about familiar things. This study compares the Mishnah to four biblical codes and two codes found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The comparison provides perspective upon the uniqueness of the Mishnah in its Israelite context of Scripture and tradition. Linked to Scripture and in dialogue with...
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Assessed against comparable documents of Scripture and the Qumran library, the Mishnah shows itself as a triumph of imagination. It exhibits remarkable capacity to think in new and astonishing ways about familiar things. This study compares the Mishnah to four biblical codes and two codes found among the Dead Sea Scrolls.
1The Mishnah's indicative traits12The book of the covenant (Ex. 20:22-23:33) and Mishnah-Tractate Baba Qamma193The Priestly code (Lev. 1-15) and Mishnah-tractate Menahot334The holiness code (Lev. 17-26) and Mishnah-tractates Baba Mesia and Kilayim635The Deuteronomic code (Dt. 12-26) and Mishnah-tractates Gittin and Hullin856The Damascus covenant (CD) and Mishnah-tractate Shabbat1057The manual of discipline (1QS) and Mishnah- and Tosefta-tractate Demai and Mishnah-tractate Tohorot145AppThe structure of the Deuteronomic law181
