Tosefta

The Tosefta ( Aramaic תוספתא ), "Add", " complete ", a compilation of oral history and traditions of Judaism from Rabbinic time ( originally the halachic time). It represents in many cases a supplement to the Mishnah, the main collection, and is created next to or shortly after this. Later it was also the subject of Baraita.

The noun derived from the verb Tosefta jasaf / ( " to add, amend " Kausativstamm ) יסף and means as much as supplement addition.

Manuscripts

• Manuscript Erfurt ( oldest manuscript, incomplete, 222 sheet from the 12th century )
• Handwriting Vienna ( only complete manuscript )
• Handwriting London ( only Seder Mo'ed and treatise Hullin )

Text output

• First printing: Venice 1521f.
• Moses Samuel Zuckermandel: Tosefta, Mishnah and Boraitha (critical Tosefta edition ), Pasewalk 1880; Reproduction in Jerusalem in 1937 and 1970
• Idem, Supplement with an overview, register and Glossary, Trier 1882
• Saul Lieberman, Tosefet Rishonim, 4 volumes, Jerusalem 1937-1939 [ collection of textual witnesses of medieval authors, of particular importance because of poor manuscript tradition of the Tosefta ]
• Saul Lieberman, The Tosefta, accor ding to cod. Vienna, with variants from cod. Erfurt, Genizah mss and ed princeps ( Venice 1521). New York 1955-1973 (4 volumes) / Tosefta Ki- Fshutah. A Comprehensive Commentary on the Tosefta, 8 volumes and supplementary volume to Moed, New York 1955-1973 (Hebrew ) [ until today the most important Tosefta comment ]
• J. Neusner, The Tosefta. Translated from the Hebrew, 6 volumes, New York 1977-1981
• Karl Heinrich Rengstorf ( ed.), Rabbinic texts. First row: The Tosefta. Stuttgart 1953ff