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The eminent Judaica scholar Jacob Neusner provides here the first form-analytical translation of the Mishnah. This pathbreaking edition provides as close to a literal translation as possible, following the syntax of Mishnaic Hebrew in its highly formalized and syntactically patterned language. Demonstrating that the Mishnah is a work of careful and formal poetry and prose, Neusner not only...

the Mishnah verbatim. The Tosefta (New York, 1977–1980: KTAV Publishing House) II – VI, which I edited, and the volume covering the first division, The Tosefta (New York, 1986: KTAV Publishing House) I, edited by Jacob Neusner and Richard Sarason, should be consulted along with the Mishnah. The second and third companions of the Mishnah are the Palestinian and Babylonian Talmuds. I have translated the former into English which is now in press as The Palestinian Talmud (Chicago, 1981–1990: The University
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