Download or read book The Mishnah in Contemporary Perspective written by Alan Jeffery Avery-Peck and published by Handbook of Oriental Studies. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of a two-part project displays the best of contemporary Israeli, North American, and European scholarship on the Mishnah, revealing the intellectual vitality of scholarship in all three centers of learning. Because of the many viewpoints included here, it is the most representative selection of contemporary Mishnah-study available in any collection in a Western language.