Egyptian-Hebrew stream·Mishnah·Treatises XXX. Babah Kaman to XLI. Minchoth (synopses)
Synopses: the Bavot (Gates) and the criminal-civil tractates
Synopses of twelve tractates of Seder Nezikin (Damages): Bava Kamma (First Gate), Bava Metzia (Middle Gate), Bava Batra (Last Gate) on civil law; Sanhedrin, Makkot, Shevuot, Eduyot, Avoda Zara, Avot, Horayot; then Zevahim and Menahot from Seder Kodashim.
Source context
- Theme
- Tannaitic civil, sacrificial, and cultic law as codified oral tradition across tractates Bava Kamma through Menachot
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Roman jurisprudenceCross-tradition congruence is visible in the structural parallel between Mishnaic civil-damage law (Bava Kamma) and Roman delict categories, both organizing liability through formal case-typology rather than narrative precedent.
- Vedic ritual science (Mimamsa)Cross-tradition congruence appears between the Mishnaic tractates on Temple offerings (Menachot, Zevachim) and Mimamsa's systematic analysis of sacrificial obligation, both treating cultic act as legally binding cosmic duty independent of subjective intent.
- Sunni fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence)Cross-tradition congruence is evident in the shared method of deriving binding norms from authoritative transmitted oral rulings, later codified — the Tannaitic principle of oral Torah transmission parallels the isnad-based hadith transmission that grounds Islamic legal reasoning.
Treatises XXX. Babah Kaman to XLI. Minchoth (synopses)
# OR, DAMAGES; TREATS OF THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS AND THINGS.
# THE FIRST GATE.
# THE MIDDLE GATE.
# THE LAST GATE.
[The above Treatises contain civil laws. They are called "Gates," because, in the East, justice is administered in the city gates.]
[Contains ceremonial laws. It also treats of the institution of the municipal and provincial Sanhedrin, and of the great Bethdin, or Sanhedrin at Jerusalem; whence its name.]
[Treats of corporeal punishments; also, of false witnesses, and of the involuntary homicide, and the cities of refuge.]
[Contains precepts for the administration of oaths.]
# TESTIMONIES.
[Is so called because it consists of laws which tried and trustworthy teachers attested to have been adopted by the elder teachers, in Sanhedrin assembled.]
[Contains laws relating to idolatry, heresy, and the enticers or seducers to either.]
# ETHICS OF THE FATHERS.
[Contains moral precepts, maxims, and apothegms, of the elder, or Mishnic teachings.]
# PRECEPTS.
[Treats of such errors in judgment committed by the great Sanhedrin as require a sin-offering. Vide Lev. iv. 13–21, and 22–26.]
Which closes the Seder Nezekin.
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# CONSECRATED THINGS; CONTAINS
[Having laws relating to sacrifices generally.]
# MEAT-OFFERINGS.
[Containing laws relating to offerings of flour.]
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