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Summary Of: Tosefta
the Tosefta acts as a supplement to the Mishnah... while the Tosefta was edited by Rabbis... thus the Tosefta is considered less authoritative... At times the text of the Tosefta agrees nearly verbatim with the Mishnah... The Tosefta attributes laws that are anonymous in the Mishnah to named... The Tosefta as we have it today functions like a commentary on unquoted Mishnaic material... The traditional view is that the Tosefta should be dated to a period concurrent with or shortly after the redaction of the... supposes that the Tosefta was produced in order to record variant material not included in the Mishnah... theorize that the Tosefta as we have it developed from a proto... Tosefta recension which formed much of the basis for later Amoraic debate... theorize that the Tosefta is a later compendium of several baraitot collections which were in use during the Amoraic... has found that the Tosefta draws on relatively early Tannaitic source material and that parts of the Tosefta predate the... of the rest of tradition and produced the Tosefta to avoid the impression that the written Mishnah was equivalent to the entire oral Torah... The definitive commentary on the Tosefta is by Rabbi... s Tosefta Kifshuta is widely considered the authoritative... s English translation and detailed commentary on the Tosefta is in the progress of being written... The Tosefta has been translated into English by Rabbi... Encyclodia Page On: Tosefta
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