Hayim Lapin
Professor, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies
Professor, Classics
Professor, History
hlapin@umd.edu
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Research Expertise
Ancient History
Europe
Jewish History
Hayim Lapin is the author of Early Rabbinic Civil Law and the Social History of Roman Galilee (1995) and Economy, Geography, and Provincial History in Later Roman Palestine (2001), and is at work on a history of the early rabbinic movement. He is the editor of Religious and Ethnic Communities in Later Roman Palestine (1998), and co-editor of Jews, Antiquity and the 19th-Century Imagination (with Dale B. Martin) and a volume in progress on the Middle East in the Byzantine Early Islamic Transition (with Kenneth Holum). He currently serves as Director of the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies.
Publications
Hayim Lapin | The Oxford Annotated Mishna, vol. 1-3
Hayim Lapin, with Shaye J.D. Cohen and Robert Goldenberg has published The Oxford Annotated Mishna, the first translation of that work, in three volumes.
Author/Lead: Hayim Lapin
Hayim Lapin, with Shaye J.D. Cohen and Robert Goldenberg has published The Oxford Annotated Mishna, the first translation of that work, in three volumes.
The Mishnah is the foundational document of rabbinic law and, one could say, of rabbinic Judaism itself. It is overwhelmingly technical and focused on matters of practice, custom, and law. An expert group of translators and annotators have assemble da version of the Mishnah that can be read without specialist knowledge.
See the publisher's website HERE.