Jacob Neusner - The Mishnah: An Introduction

As noted in the preface, Chapter 3 goes over matters discussed, for a different purpose and in a different way, in my Economics of Judaism: The Initial Statement (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989). I express thanks to The University of Chicago Press for permission to review in this book the presentation of certain Mishnah chapters treated in that work.

For Chapter 5 I have reproduced, with revision, Martin S. Jaffees, Mishnahs Theology of Tithing: A Study of Tractate Maaserot (Chico, CA, 1981: Scholars Press for Brown Judaic Studies), pp. 1-62, 1981 by Brown University, with permission of both the copyright owner and the author.

My translation of the complete Mishnah is in print as The Mishnah: A New Translation (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987), Yale University Press. My thanks go to Yale University Press for permission to make use of some of my translations here.

My translations and commentaries on the Mishnah were originally published by E. J. Brill, Leiden, copyrighted in the years indicated, and are listed in the following bibliography, along with my translations of Tosefta, Yerushalmi, and Bavli. I have made revisions throughout. I thank my publishers for permission to draw upon my earlier work in this new statement.

A History of Mishnaic Law of Purities. Leiden: Brill, 1974-1977: I-XXII.

The Tosefta. Transdated from the Hebrew. New York: Ktav, 1977-1980: Ktav. II-VI.

Edited: The Tosefta, Translated from the Hebrew. I. The First Division ( Zeraim ). New York: Ktav, 1985.

The Tosefta: Its Structure and its Sources. Atlanta: Scholars Press for Brown Judaic Studies, 1986. Reprise of pertinent results in Purities I-XXI.

A History of the Mishnaic Law of Holy Things. Leiden: Brill, 1979: I-VI.

Form Analysts and Exegesis: A Fresh Approach to the Interpretation of Mishnah. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1980.

A History of the Mishnaic Law of Women. Leiden: Brill, 1979-1980: I-V.

A History of the Mishnaic Law of Appointed Times. Leiden: Brill, 1981-1983: I-V.

A History of the Mishnaic Law of Damages. Leiden: Brill, 1983-1985: I-V.

The Mishnah: A New Translation. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. The Talmud of the Land of Israel. A Preliminary Translation and Explanation. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1982-1989: IX-XII, XIV-XV, XVII-XXXV.

Edited: In the Margins of the Yerushalmi. Notes on the English Translation. Chico, CA: Scholars Press for Brown Judaic Studies, 1983.

The Talmud of Babylonia, An American Translation. Chico, CA: Scholars Press for Brown Judaic Studies, 1984-1985.

A History of the Mishnaic Law of Purities. Leiden: Brill, 1977: XXI. The Redaction and Formulation of the Order of Purities in the Mishnah and Tosefta.