ABSTRACT
The Mishnah is a codification of rabbinic oral law compiled c. 200 CE by Rabbi Judah the Prince. The language of the Mishnah is clearly a differ ent variety of Hebrew to BH. It is often called Mishnaic Hebrew, in the same way that the language of the Hebrew Bible is called BH. Also, just as BH can refer to similar types of Hebrew found outside the Hebrew Bible, so too MH can be used as a term for similar sorts of Hebrew found outside the Mishnah. Other scholars prefer the terms Rabbinic Hebrew or Tannaitic Hebrew.
