RAB 600 Mishnah
This course introduces students to the literature and thought of the early rabbinic (tannaitic) period. Students explore some of the major legal and philosophical concerns of the early rabbinic movement through the study of Mishnah. Scholarly issues to be considered include: nature and redaction of the Mishnah, relationship between the Mishnah and the Tosefta, relationship between the Mishnah and legal midrash, and the oral transmission of rabbinic texts.