A lecture to celebrate the launch of The Mishnaic Moment: Jewish Law among Jews and Christians in Early Modern Europe, edited by Piet van Boxel, Kirsten Macfarlane, and Joanna Weinberg.

The Mishnaic Moment offers a unique study of a remarkable encounter between Jews and Christians in seventeenth-century northern Europe, when scholars from both communities were printing, producing, and discussing commentaries on the canonical corpus of Jewish Law, the Mishnah. The volume culminates in an examination of the monumental production in six volumes of an edition and Latin translation of the Mishnah, published by Guilielmus Surenhusius in Amsterdam between 1698 and 1703. For more details, please see OUP’s website.

Followed by a champagne reception.