List of Editions of Rabbinic Texts and Method of Citation

Mishnah

Mishnah: Six Orders. Edited by Chanoch Albeck. Jerusalem: Bialik, 1955–1959. Mishnah is cited by chapter and number of mishnah. The text of the Mishnah is gen- erally that of the Kaufmann manuscript (Hungary Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Kaufmann collection, MS A 50), emended as needed according to the manuscript evidence. The numbering of the mishnah in the chapter follows that of the Albeck edition of the Mishnah.

Tosefta

Tosephta. Edited by Moses Samuel Zuckermandel. Pasewalk: M. S. Zuckermandel, 1880. Repr., Jerusalem: Bamberger et Wahrmann, 1937. Repr., Jerusalem: Wahrmann, 1970 The Tosefta. Edited by Saul Lieberman. 5 volumes. New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1955–1988. Tosefta is cited by name of tractate, chapter and halakhah number, with additional reference to page number in Lieberman’s edition where extant (Orders Zeraʿim, Moʿed, Nashim and the three tractates of Neziqin [B. Qama, B. Meṣʿia, B. Batra]); the text is emended according to the manuscript evidence. For remaining tractates Zuckermandel’s edition is consulted. Commentary by Saul Lieberman in Tosefta ki-Fshuṭah: A Comprehensive Commentary on the Tosefta (New York: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1955–1988), is cited by number of volume and page.

Tannaitic (halakhic) Midrashim

Mechilta d’Rabbi Ismael. Edited by Haim Saul Horovitz and Israel Abraham Rabin. Frankfurt a. M.: J. Kauffmann, 1928–1931. Cited according to the name of the tractate and number of section (parashah), with additional reference to the page number in the Horovitz-Rabin edition. Mekhilta d’Rabbi Šimʿon b. Jocḥai. Edited by Jacob Nahum Epstein and Ezra Zion Melamed. Jerusalem: Meqizé Nirdamim, 1955. Cited by Scriptural verse, with additional reference to the page number in the Epstein-Melamed edition.

Sifra de-be Rab (to Leviticus). Venice: Bomberg, 1545 (editio princeps). Cited according to name of the tractate/biblical section, the number of the pereq or parashah, and the number of the subsection, with additional reference to the folio number and column in the Venice 1545 edition. Siphre d’be Rab (to Numbers). Edited by Haim Saul Horovitz. Leipzig: G. Fock, 1917. Repr., Jerusalem: Wahrmann, 1966. Cited by paragraph (pisqa ʾ), with additional reference to the page number in the Horovitz edition. Sifre on Numbers: An Annotated Edition. Part I: The Edition. 2 vols. Part II: Commentary. 3 vols. Edited by Menahem Kahana. Jerusalem: Magnes, 2011–2015. Text of Sifre Numbers from Kahana’s Edition is cited by page number. The Com mentary is cited according to number of volume and page number. Sifre Zuṭa Numbers. Edited by Haim Saul Horovitz. Leipzig: G. Fock, 1917. Repr., Jerusalem: Wahrmann, 1966. Cited by Scriptural verse, with additional reference to the page number in the Horovitz edition of Siphre d’be Rab (Jerusalem, 1966). Sifre on Deuteronomy. Edited by Louis Finkelstein. New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1969. Cited by paragraph (pisqa ʾ), with additional reference to the page number in the Finkelstein edition. Midrasch Tannaim zum Deuteronomium. Edited by David Hoffman. Berlin: H. Itzkowski, 1897. Repr., 1908–1909. Cited by Scriptural verse, with additional reference to the page number in the Hoffman edition. Mekhilta Deuteronomy (fragments) Citations from Mekhilta Deuteronomy (Mek. Deut) are from identified manu- scripts and fragments; see Menahem Kahana, “New Fragments of the Mekilta on Deuteronomy” (Hebrew), Tarbiz 54 (1985), 485–551, and idem, “Pages of the Deuteronomy Mekhilta on Haʾazinu and We-zot Ha-berakha” (Hebrew), Tarbiẓ 57 (1988), 165–201. The latter citations are compared to Hoffman’s edition, although care must be taken in identifying passages in the Hoffman edition with Mek. Deut; see Kahana, “The Halakhic Midrashim,” Midrash and Targum, Liturgy, Poetry, Mysticism, Contracts, Inscriptions, Ancient Science and the Languages of Rabbinic Literature, vol. 2 of The Literature of the Sages, ed. Shmuel Safrai et al., Assen: Van Gorcum, 2006, 100–103. Sifre Zuta on Deuteronomy. Edited by Menahem I. Kahane. Jerusalem: Magnes, 2002. The fragmentary text of the Midrash, culled mostly from citations of the work embedded in the commentary of the 11th century Karaite scholar, Yeshuʽa b. Yehuda, attested in a manuscript originating from the Cairo Genizah, is cited according to the page number of Kahana’s edition.