Transmitting Mishnah : the shaping influence of oral tradition / Elizabeth Shanks Alexander.
Departing from the conventional view of mishnaic transmission as mindless rote memorisation, Transmitting Mishnah, first published in 2006, reveals how multifaceted the process of passing on oral tradition was in antiquity. Taking advantage of the burgeoning field of orality studies, Elizabeth Shank...
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2006.
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