Babylonian Baraitot in the Tosefta and the “Dialectology” of Middle Hebrew
It has long been a truism that the Tosefta serves as a major source of tannaitic material for both Talmuds. One corollary of this view is that the toseftan versions of baraitot (hereafter, “toseftan baraitot”)1 are, barring the usual vagaries of transmissional difficulties, closer to the original ta...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
1991
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AJS review
Year: 1991, Volume: 16, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 1-30 |
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| Summary: | It has long been a truism that the Tosefta serves as a major source of tannaitic material for both Talmuds. One corollary of this view is that the toseftan versions of baraitot (hereafter, “toseftan baraitot”)1 are, barring the usual vagaries of transmissional difficulties, closer to the original tannaitic texts than those found in the Yerushalmi, and certainly the Bavli.Linguistically speaking, this understanding of the place of the Tosefta in early rabbinic literature underlies the assignment (without much analysis!) of the Tosefta, along with the Mishnah, to the earlier stratum of Middle Hebrew (= Mishnaic Hebrew), mhe1 (= Middle Hebrew A). |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S036400940000310X |