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The Tosefta: Translated from the Hebrew with a New Introduction, Volumes 1 & 2 is unavailable, but you can change that!

The importance of the Tosefta for literary, historical, and religious scholarship has long been known, and this two-volume set makes it accessible to many more readers. The work is a vital supplement to the early rabbinic oral tradition first set to writing in the Mishnah at the end of the second century of the Common Era. Dating to about 220 CE and also set in the Tannaic period, the Tosefta has...

If readers can envision such a state of affairs, then we have entered the world of sources confronted by those who study the ancient Judaism emergent from the Rabbinic literature. In the encounter with the Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmuds, and Midrash-compilations, New Testament scholars will grasp the fact that Rabbinic literature is simply not homologous to the writings with which they work, and cannot be used in the same way at all. Not only so, but their literature deals with different types of problems
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