Jacob Neusner

The eminent Judaica scholar Jacob Neusner provides here the first form-analytical translation of the Mishnah. This path-breaking edition offers as close to a literal translation as possible, following the syntax of Mishnaic Hebrew in its highly formalised and syntactically patterned language. Demonstrating that the Mishnah is a work of careful and formal poetry and prose, Neusner not only analyses the...