Development of Legal and Exegetical Method (circa 70-3rd century CE)
Greco-Roman Period
- From Text to Tradition
- Historical surveys
- Primary sources
- Josephus, Antiquities XIII, 297- The Pharisees and the Sadducees on the Tradition of the Fathers
- Philo, The Special Laws IV, 143-150- Written and Unwritten Law
- Mark 7- The Pharisees and Purity
- Megillat Ta’anit- The Law and the Sadducees and the Boethusians
- Jerusalem Talmud Megillah 4-1 (74a)- Oral and Written Transmission of the Law
- Babylonian Talmud Temurah 14b- Prohibition on the Writing of the Oral Law
- Sifre Deuteronomy 351- The Antiquity of the Concept of Oral Law
- Sifra- The Thirteen Hermeneutical Rules of Rabbi Ishmael
- Mishnah Bava Qamma 6-4-5- Restitution for Damage by Fire
- Mekhilta of Rabbi Ishmael, Nezeqin 14- Restitution for Damage by Fire
- Babylonian Talmud Hagigah 14a- Defining the Aggadah
- Jerusalem Talmud Hagigah 1-8 (76a)- Revelation of the Oral Law
- Jerusalem Talmud Horayot 3-5 (48c)- The Power of Aggadah
- Jerusalem Talmud Sheqalim 5-1 (48c)- Separation of Halakhah and Aggadah