HIS 503 Mishnah as History
The Mishnah and its related literature constitute the record of the greatest transformation ever effected in the history of our faith. An analysis of its records utilizing the tools of the contemporary social sciences will reveal the new post-biblical world in which these changes took place and at the same time provide guidelines for the inevitable changes that must take place in the presentation of our faith in the kaleidoscopically changing world of contemporary globalism.