Rosen-Tzvi has written a masterpiece of a book that uncovers the many layers of Mishnah and Midrash, revealing that these are sophisticated, deep texts, carefully constructed intellectual systems.The book was published by University of California Press in 2026. See the review for a link.One can’t understand rabbinic Judaism by reading these texts superficially; one needs to grasp the rules, structures, and assumptions that underlie them. In How to Read the Mishnah and Midrash: An Introduction to Early Rabbinic Literature, Rosen-Tzvi shows how to do that.
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