Editing Talmud (section)

===Mishnah===
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The [[Mishnah]] is a compilation of legal opinions and debates. Statements in the Mishnah are typically terse, recording brief opinions of the rabbis debating a subject; or recording only an unattributed ruling, apparently representing a consensus view. The rabbis recorded in the Mishnah are known as the [[Tannaim]] (literally, "repeaters", or "teachers"). These tannaim—rabbis of the second century CE—"who produced the Mishnah and other tannaic works, must be distinguished from the rabbis of the third to fifth centuries, known as amoraim (literally, "speakers"), who produced the two Talmudim and other amoraic works".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cohen |first1=Shaye J. D. |title=From the Maccabees to the Mishnah |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H5hLLIrh6n8C&q=206date=2006 |publisher=Westminster John Knox Press |location=Louisville |isbn=978-0-664-22743-2 |page=206 |edition=Second |website=wjkbooks.com |date=January 2006 |access-date=9 November 2020}}</ref>

Since it sequences its laws by subject matter instead of by biblical context, the Mishnah discusses individual subjects more thoroughly than the [[Midrash]], and it includes a much broader selection of halakhic subjects than the Midrash. The Mishnah's topical organization thus became the framework of the Talmud as a whole. But not every tractate in the Mishnah has a corresponding Gemara. Also, the order of the tractates in the Talmud differs in some cases from that in the ''Mishnah''.

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