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What is (the) Mishnah? Concluding Observations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2008
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If the scholarly works discussed here are any indication, as I believe they are, the study of the Mishnah is alive and well. Yet a question immediately suggests itself: Do the works under consideration here together constitute a new approach to the Mishnah and thus inaugurate a new era in mishnaic studies?
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1. In this respect, these works are to be distinguished from the documentary approach proposed by Jacob Neusner in the 1980s, which privileged the independence and compositional integrity of rabbinic works to the near exclusion of comparative analysis of parallel traditions and subunits.
2. To be clear, Simon-Shoshan does not say that the stories are only about authority, just that they are at least about authority.