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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Table of Contents:
- The oral conceptual lens
- Caveats to the theory of oral composition
- The literary and the oral in Mishnah
- The theory of textual corruption
- The present study
- A brief introduction to the tractate of oaths and other technical terminology
- Sharing an overarching structural framework : M. Shev 5:4-5 and T. Shev. 2:16
- Fixed phrases in common : M. Shev. 7:1-7 and T. Shev 6:1-4
- Shared underlying conceptual concerns : M. Shev. 3:4 and T. Shev. 2:1-2
- Using the talmudic commentaries
- Omnisignificance, atomization, and a narrow exegetical focus
- The Yerushalmi on M. Shev. 3:1
- The Bavli on M. Shev. 3:1
- Ascribing increasingly intense degrees of authorial intention
- The Yerushalmi on M. Shev. 3:8
- The Bavli on M. Shev. 3:2-3
- The casuistic form in biblical and ancient Near Eastern codes
- Basic casuistic form : using particular cases to illustrate general rules
- The series of related cases : an exercise in compare and contrast
- Improbable cases : exploring how different legal principles interact
- Borderline cases and disputes : fleshing out legal ambiguities
- Pedagogical uses of borderline cases
- The unsolvable problem
- Using borderline cases to understand disagreements
- Borderline cases in mishnaic exegesis
- An extended exercise in probing mishnaic ambiguity.