This volume offers contributions to two basic questions of the study of the Tosefta: How can we describe the character and relationship of the Tosefta manuscripts? And how does the Tosefta relate to other rabbinic traditions and texts? It also sheds light on other topics of Tosefta research: "magic", emotions, and gender. The volume, based on two international colloquia in Munster in 2016 and 2017, marks the beginning of a new phase in the study of Tosefta, encouraging an international conversation between scholars on method and contents.

Lutz Doering, Dr. theol. habil., since 2014 Professor of New Testament and Ancient Judaism and Director of the Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum at the University of Muenster.

Daniel Schumann, Dr. theol., 2014 - 2018 Lecturer at the University of Muenster, 2018 - 2020 Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Oxford, since 2020 Lecturer at the University of Tuebingen.