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| Preface | |
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| Abbreviations and Bibliography | |
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| Transliterations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The System as a Whole | |
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| The Mishnaic System of Damages | |
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| Mishnah's System | |
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| Scripture's Rules and Systems | |
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| The System of Mishnah in Relationship to the Rules of Scripture | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Formation of the Tractates | |
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| Baba Qamma, Baba Mesia, Baba Batra | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Damage Done by Chattels (Baba Qamma) | |
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| Damage Done by Persons. Theft. (Baba Qamma) | |
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| The Disposition of Other People's Possessions (Baba Mesia) | |
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| Illicit Commercial Transactions (Baba Mesia) | |
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| Hiring Workers. Rentals and Bailments. (Baba Mesia) | |
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| Real Estate (Baba Mesia, Baba Batra) | |
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| Licit Commercial Transactions (Baba Batra) | |
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| Inheritances and Wills. Other Commercial and Legal Documents (Baba Batra) | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Sanhedrin, Makkot | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Court System (Sanhedrin) | |
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| The Death-Penalty (Sanhedrin) | |
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| Perjury (Makkot) | |
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| The Penalty of Exile (Makkot) | |
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| The Penalty of Flogging (Makkot) | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Shebuot | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Uncleanness of the Cult and its Holy Things and the Guilt-Offering | |
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| Oaths | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Abodah Zarah | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Commercial Relationships with Gentiles | |
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| Idols | |
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| Libation-Wine | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Horayot | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Offering Brought because of an Erroneous Decision by a Court | |
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| The Offering Brought by the High Priest Who Has Unwittingly Done What Is Contrary to the Commandments of the Torah. The Ruler | |
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| Individual, Anointed Priest, Community | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Unfolding of the Law | |
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| Before 70 and from 70 to 120: The Mishnaic System of Damages before the Destruction of the Temple and in Yavnean Times | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Survey of Damages before 70 and from 70 to 120 | |
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| Civil Law | |
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| Torts | |
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| Lost and Found. Bailments | |
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| Commercial Transactions. Loans | |
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| Real Estate | |
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| Transactions with Pagans | |
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| Civil Institutions of Government | |
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| Court Procedures Oaths | |
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| Tractates of Yavneh | |
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| Shebuot | |
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| Abodah Zarah | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| From 140 to 170: The Mishnaic System of Damages in the Time of Usha | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Survey of Damages from 140 to 170 | |
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| Civil Law | |
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| Torts and Damages | |
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| Lost and Found. Bailments | |
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| Commercial Transactions. Loans | |
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| Real Estate | |
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| Transactions with Pagans | |
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| Relationships between Employers and Workers | |
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| Inheritances and Wills | |
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| Civil Institutions of Government | |
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| Court Procedures. Oaths | |
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| The Court System | |
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| Judicial Penalties | |
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| Judicial Error and Communal Atonement | |
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| Tractates of Usha | |
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| Baba Qamma | |
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| Baba Mesia | |
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| Baba Batra | |
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| Sanhedrin | |
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| Makkot | |
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| Horayot | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Two Addresses to the Society of Biblical Literature | |
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| A Statement of Method (1979) | |
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| Taking Things Apart to See How They work (1984) | |
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| Reply to Critics. The Mishnah and the Smudgepots | |
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| Index | |