home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ The Epic Interactive Encyclopedia 1998 / Epic Interactive Encyclopedia, The - 1998 Edition (1998)(Epic Marketing).iso / M / Mishna / INFOTEXT < prev   
Text File  |  1992-09-03  |  327b  |  9 lines
  1. Hebrew `oral instruction'. a collection of
  2. commentaries on written Hebrew law,
  3. consisting of discussions between rabbis,
  4. handed down orally from their inception in AD
  5. 70 until about 200, when, with the Gemara
  6. (the main body of rabbinical debate on
  7. interpretations of the Mishna) it was
  8. committed to writing to form the Talmud.
  9.