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Halakhah: The Category-Formations
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The Halakhah of Rabbinic Judaism as set forth in the Mishnah-Tosefta-Yerushalmi-Bavli organizes its data into generative category-formations, most of them shaped around the twin-principles of [1] the analysis of [2] a particular topic, hence, analytical-topical category-formations. Information on a given subject …

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Neusner, Jacob, “Halakhah: The Category-Formations”, in: Encyclopaedia of Judaism. Consulted online on 10 December 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1872-9029_EJ_COM_0069>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004141001, 20040701



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