3.17 Quest for the Rabbis II: The Mishnah

<p>The Mishnah is the first great product of the rabbis. Traditionally it was codified around 200 CE by Rabbi Yehuda naNasi. It appears from nowhere. The Mishnah bears no resemblance to anything in the Tanakh/Old Testament, nor in the vast Jewish apocalyptic literature of preceding centuries. </p>