Dr Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz explains the making of Mishnah and takes us through its various layers.

Visual aid for this podcast: Mishnah layers

Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz studied archaeology at Cambridge and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and recently completed a PhD at University College London on the religious lives of Orthodox Jewish women, which will be published as a book. She is a Teaching Fellow at London School of Jewish Studies, an occasional lecturer at Cambridge and Oxford, edits academic books, is involved in Scriptural Reasoning and interfaith activity, and has taught young & old in the Jewish community for the past 15 years.