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23 July 2022
The Mishnah is the first great codification of halakhic material for Rabbinic Judaism. It was compiled around 200 CE, though it contains traditions stretching back a bit further than that. It is authoritative for religious communities that accept it as authoritative, but for mainstream academia it is of limited value for reconstructing the earlier meanings of biblical texts. It is, in an academic setting, seen more as a historical artifact of its own time than of anything that speaks reliably about the history of the Bible itself.
The Mishnah forms the basis of the Talmud.
You can read the Mishnah itself, in Hebrew and English, at the excellent website Sefaria.
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