Anonymity and Redaction in Legal Midrash: A Preliminary Probe

Steven D . FraaDe 1 . INTRODUCTION Most recent scholarly discussion of the relation of attribution and anonymity to redaction in rabbinic literature has occurred with respect to the Babylonian Talmud , that is , in consideration of the contributions of the Babylonian amoraim and their anonymous editorial successors ) commonly referred to as “ stammaim" ( to the literary and historical formation of the talmudic text . Less attention has been paid to similar questions as they pertain to the earlier Palestinian Talmud and the tannaitic corpora of Mishnah and Tosefta , and still less to the so-called tannaitic or halakhic midrashim . Because of 1 For the most recently published formulation of this matter , see David Weiss Halivni , “ דומלתה תווהתהב םינויע , " in Sidra : Journal for the Study of Rabbinic Literature , › 0 )› 005 ( : 69-117 . For a somewhat reduced English version of the same , see idem , “ Aspects of the Formation of the Talmud , " in Creation and Composition : The Contribut...  אל הספר
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