MISHNAH. The Jewish Mishnah (Hebrew slidnah, Aramaic tend, " to repeat ") comprises for the most part the discussions of the Rabbis who lived between A.D. 70 and about A.D. 200. These legal discussions were gradually codified and committed to writing by a suc cession of scholars known as Tannahn (" repeaters "), and the final codifier who gave the work its present form (c. A.D. 200) was Rabbi Jehudah the Holy (see TAN NAIM). After this the Mishnah itself became the sub ject of discussion by a succession of •scholars who were called Amordim (q.v.). These discussions received the name Gem5r5 (" supplement" or " completion " : see GEMARA). The Gemilra is entirely of the nature of Haggadah (q.v.); the Mishnah is mostly, though not entirely, in the style of Halakhah (see the articles HAG GADAH and TALMUD. The Mishnah contains sixty three treatises or tractates, which are arranged in six groups or sedarim. The names of the tractates (with the number of the groups to which they belong are as follows : `AbOda zara (iv. 8); AbOth (iv. 9); 'Aralthin (v. 5); Baba Bathra (iv. 3): Baba Kamm (iv. 1); Bald M6§1‘a (iv. 2): BekhOrOth (v. 4); BerriklOth (I. 1); Besil (ii. 7); Bikkfirim (i. 11); Chilgigii (ii. 12); Challis
(i. 9); Chullin (v. 3); Denuii (1. 3); Edliyoth (iv. 7); `Erfibin (H. 12); Girtin (iii. C); Horayah (iv. 10); Kaim (vi. 1); Kerithoth (v. 7); Kethfiboth (Hi. 2); idchishin (iii. 7); Kinfiyim (I. 4); Kinnim (v. 11); Ma'aser Shall (i. S); Ala`5serOth (1. 7); Makhshirin (vi. 8); Makkah (iv. 5); Megilla (ii. 10); Me'115. (v. 8); MenAchOth (v. 2); Middoth (v. 10); Milsw:Voth (vi. 6); Mo'ed K5tiin (ii. 11); Nrair (iii. 4); Nearim (iii. 3): Negrt`lin (vi. 3); Nidd5 (vi. 7); Ohatath (vi. 2); `Orla (i. 10); Paris (vi. 4); re'a (1. 2): Pesachim (ii. 8); Rash ha-Shanit (ii. S); Sanhedrin (iv. 4); Shabblith (H. 1); Shehfrah (iv. 6); Shni`ith (i. 5); Shekillim (ii. 4); SOta (iii. 5: Snkka (ii. 6); Taginith (ii. 9): Timid (v. 9): Tebul Iran (vi. 10); Temfir5 (v. 6); (I. 6); Tolitiroth (vi. 6); `171ssin (vi. 12); YadAyim (vi. 11); Yeb5moth (iii. 1); Yana (ii. 5); Ziibim (vi. 9): Zebnchim (v. 1). See Eneyel. Bibl., s.v. " Bibliographical Notes " (prefatory matter) and " Law Literature "; W. 0. E. Oesterley and G. H. Box; A. S. Geden, Intr. to the Hebrew Bible, 1909.