Top Document: soc.culture.jewish FAQ: Torah and Halachic Authority (3/12) Previous Document: Question 3.12: What is the Tosefta? Next Document: Question 3.14: What is the Gemara and what is the Talmud? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Answer: The Tosefta was written shortly after the Mishna was redacted, and seems to act as a supplement to it. It extensively quotes most of the Mishna. The Tosefta offers author's names for laws that are anonymous in the Mishna; It augments the Mishna with additional glosses and discussions. Additionally, it functions as a commentary on unquoted Mishnaic material; It offers additional haggadic and midrashic material, and it sometimes contradicts the Mishna in deciding Halakha, or in declaring in whose name a law was given. User Contributions:Top Document: soc.culture.jewish FAQ: Torah and Halachic Authority (3/12) Previous Document: Question 3.12: What is the Tosefta? Next Document: Question 3.14: What is the Gemara and what is the Talmud? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: SCJ FAQ Maintainer <maintainer@scjfaq.org>
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