Judah ha-Nasi redacts the Mishnah, the first great codification of the Oral Torah, in six orders of law; it becomes the foundation document of rabbinic Judaism and the base text of both Talmuds.
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The Event
- Date
- c. 200 (approximate)
- Era
- Rabbinic; Standard periodization of Jewish history
- Location
- Galilee
- Traditions
- Judaism
- Streams
- Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism, Reform Judaism, Reconstructionist Judaism, Secular Judaism
- Key figures
- Judah ha-Nasi
- Key texts
- Mishnah
Primary Sources
- Mishnah
Secondary Sources
- Schiffman, From Text to Tradition: A History of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism (Ktav, 1991)
- Goodman, A History of Judaism (Princeton, 2018)
Provenance: HIST-0113; confidence 0.85; accessed 2026-10-27.
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