Mishnah
Subtitle: Translated from the Hebrew with Introduction and Brief Explanatory Notes
Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers Marketing, LLC
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 844
ISBN-13: 9781598569025
Description: "The Mishnah, understood to be the written form of the Jewish Oral Law, was preserved by the rabbis following the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE, and was completed in approximately 200 CE. More than four centruies of Jewish religious thought and activity are found within this text, and it is as important to the development of Judaism as the New Testament is to the development of Christianity..." -- p [4] of cover.