Mishnaic Hebrew is the form of Hebrew used in the Talmudic texts, known in Hebrew as the language of the Sages. Scholars divide it into Mishnaic Hebrew proper, roughly the first two centuries of the Common Era, when it was still a spoken language, and Amoraic Hebrew, roughly 200 to 500 CE, which survived as a literary language only. It is a direct ancient descendant of Biblical Hebrew as preserved after the Babylonian captivity and was definitively recorded by Jewish sages in the Mishnah and other contemporary documents. Transitional forms appear in the halakhic midrashim, such as the Sifra, the Sifre and the Mekhilta of Rabbi Ishmael, and in the Tosefta. In this atlas the entry groups prayers, texts and other records whose language is rabbinic Hebrew rather than the earlier biblical form.
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Liturgical role (class) Mishnaic Hebrew
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Attested in Region
Judea, Regions Documents of the Bar Kokhba revolt in Judea are written in Mishnaic Hebrew.
Source Mishnaic Hebrew (Wikipedia)
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Named or Composed in This Language
Source Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd editionMichael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik (eds.)
Source The Mishnah: A New TranslationJacob Neusner, trans.
Source From the Maccabees to the MishnahShaye J. D. Cohen
Source The Babylonian TalmudAnonymous (multiple authors)
Source Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd editionMichael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik (eds.)
Uses This Script
The infobox names the Hebrew alphabet as the writing system.
Source Mishnaic Hebrew (Wikipedia)
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1. Mishnaic Hebrew (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationMishnaic Hebrew, lead paragraph
is the Hebrew language used in Talmudic texts.
Mishnaic Hebrew, decline as a spoken language
Nevertheless, Hebrew survived as a liturgical and literary language in the form of later Amoraic Hebrew, which sometimes occurs in the Gemara text.
Mishnaic Hebrew, decline as a spoken language, liturgical role
Nevertheless, Hebrew survived as a liturgical and literary language in the form of later Amoraic Hebrew, which sometimes occurs in the Gemara text.
Uses This Script: Hebrew, Infobox, Writing system
Hebrew alphabet
Attested in Region: Judea, Mishnaic Hebrew, Bar Kokhba documents
Yadin also notes a shift from Aramaic to Hebrew in Judea during the time of the Bar Kokhba revolt
View the Source The Babylonian Talmud
Anonymous (multiple authors), Soncino Press, 1935Named or Composed in This Language: The Seven Heavens, Stored language property on this entity, cited to this source: mishnaic-hebrewView the Source From the Maccabees to the Mishnah
Shaye J. D. Cohen, Westminster John Knox Press, 2006Named or Composed in This Language: Talmud, Stored language property on this entity, cited to this source: mishnaic-hebrewView the Source Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd edition
Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik (eds.), Macmillan Reference USA, 2007- Named or Composed in This Language: Mishnah, Stored language property on this entity, cited to this source: mishnaic-hebrew
- Named or Composed in This Language: Tosefta, Stored language property on this entity, cited to this source: mishnaic-hebrew
View the Source The Mishnah: A New Translation
Jacob Neusner, trans., Yale University Press, 1988Named or Composed in This Language: Pirkei Avot, Stored language property on this entity, cited to this source: mishnaic-hebrew
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