(Hebrew: “supplement”) A Rabbinic supplement to, commentary on, and amplification of the MISHNAH. Compiled at the beginning of the fourth century C.E., the Tosefta, like the Mishnah, contains material presumably preserved from the preceding...

Works by the *tannaim. The Tosefta dates from the 2nd Century CE and has the same six orders as the *Mishnah. Some passages, the *Beraitot, parallel passages found in the Mishnah, but the Tosefta also includes new material. The origin of the work is...

MISHNAH AND TOSEFTA. The Mishnah is a law code and school book, containing the legal and theological system of Judaism. It was brought to closure about 200 CE under the auspices of the head of the Jewish community of the Holy Land at that time, Yehudah...

Talmudic literature Mishnah • Tosefta Jerusalem Talmud • Babylonian Talmud Minor...