The Mishnah: A New Translation

The Mishnah is the foundational rabbinic legal text compiled around 200 CE, and this Yale University Press volume is Jacob Neusner's scholarly English translation of it, one of the standard complete English renderings used in academic study of rabbinic Judaism. Its strength is that Neusner was an unusually prolific and influential translator and scholar of rabbinic literature, and this translation remains widely used specifically because it renders the entire Mishnah in a consistent, systematic English style suited to close academic study. Its limit is that Neusner's own translation choices and organizational commentary reflect his particular scholarly interpretive approach to rabbinic literature, one respected but not universally shared among Talmudists, so a claim resting on a specific fine point of translation may benefit from checking against another standard translation alongside this one.