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What is the relationship of Mishnah to Talmud?

Who is Rabbi Akiva?

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Who is Rabbi Akiva?
Wrote much of The Mishnah during the Second Temple
Reform movement scholar, 19th century
Advisor to the Hasmonean king, Medieval period
Martyr of revolt against Rome, 135 CE
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What is the relationship of Mishnah to Talmud?
Talmud (Gemara) elaborates on The Mishnah
The Mishnah has 4,000 Talmudic units
Mishnah to Talmud is like exile is to homeland
The Mishnah is the genre of the Talmud
3
When (approximately) was the Talmud completed?
By Maimonides, before he died in 1204
7th Century
600 CE
350 CE
4
Halakhah means...
D. Not choices A and B
A. Law
C. choices A and B
B. Not law
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Aggadah refers to...
Rabbinic teachings about law
Not biblical stories about the rabbis
Biblical stories about the rabbis
Not rabbinic teachings about law
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When was The Mishnah compiled? Choose closest answer
After the Second Temple destroyed
After the life of Philo Judaeus
None of the choices here
After the Second Revolt, Bar Kochva (135 CE)
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When was The Mishnah compiled? Choose closest answer
30-70 CE
125-155 CE
190-220 CE
140-60 BCE
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What is midrash?
All of the choices here
an innovative Reading beyond literal scripture
the MIDdle section of the Talmud
a SHort form of law, no casuistry ("Thou shalt not steal")
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What does mishnah mean?
Capitalized: a collection of rabbinic teachings
All of these choices
A New rabbinic teaching beyond the Bible
A paragraph or so in The Mishnah
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Which combination is NOT possible?
Aggadic midrash
Midrash halakhah
a mishnah unit in the Midrash
An aggada in The Mishnah