Tractates covering topics of halakhah not covered by the Mishnah
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Talmudic literature
Tannaitic
Mishnah
Tosefta
Amoraic (Gemara)
Jerusalem Talmud
Babylonian Talmud
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Halakhic Midrash
Exodus
Mekhilta of Rabbi Ishmael
Mekhilta of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai
Leviticus
Sifra (Torat Kohanim)
Numbers and Deuteronomy
Sifre
Sifrei Zutta on Numbers
(Mekhilta le-Sefer Devarim)
Aggadic Midrash
Tannaitic
Seder Olam Rabbah
Alphabet of Rabbi Akiva
Baraita of the Forty-nine Rules
Baraita on the Thirty-two Rules
Baraita on the Erection of the Tabernacle
400–600 CE
Genesis Rabbah
Lamentations Rabbah
Pesikta de-Rav Kahana
Esther Rabbah
Midrash Iyyob
Leviticus Rabbah
Seder Olam Zutta
Tanhuma
Megillat Antiochus
650–900 CE
Avot de-Rabbi Natan
Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer
Tanna Devei Eliyahu
Alphabet of Sirach
Ecclesiastes Rabbah
Shir HaShirim Rabbah
Deuteronomy Rabbah
Devarim Zutta
Pesikta Rabbati
Midrash Shmuel
Midrash Proverbs
Ruth Rabbah
Baraita of Samuel
Targum Sheni
900–1000 CE
Ruth Zuta
Eichah Zuta
Midrash Tehillim
Midrash Hashkem
Exodus Rabbah
Shir ha-Shirim Zutta
Iggeret of Rabbi Sherira Gaon
1000–1200 CE
Midrash Tadshe
Sefer haYashar
Later
Yalkut Shimoni
Yalkut haMachiri
Midrash Jonah
Ein Yaakov
Midrash HaGadol
Numbers Rabbah
Smaller midrashim
Targum
Torah
Targum Onkelos
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan
Fragment Targum
Targum Neofiti
Nevi'im
Targum Jonathan
Ketuvim
Targum Tehillim
Targum Mishlei
Targum Iyyov
Targum to the Five Megillot
Targum Sheni to Esther
Targum to Chronicles
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The minor tractates (Hebrew: מסכתות קטנות, masechtot qetanot) are essays from the Talmudic period or later dealing with topics about which no formal tractate exists in the Mishnah. They may thus be contrasted to the Tosefta, whose tractates parallel those of the Mishnah.
Each minor tractate contains all the important material bearing on a single subject. While they are mishnaic in form and are called "tractates," the topics discussed in them are arranged more systematically than in the Mishnah; for they are eminently practical in purpose, being, in a certain sense, the first manuals in which the data scattered through prolix sources have been collected in a brief and comprehensive form.
There are about 15 minor tractates. The first eight or so contain much original material; the last seven or so are collections of material scattered throughout the Talmud.[1] Ancient authorities mention especially seven such tractates,[which?] which are doubtless the earliest ones.[2] Their name and form suggests that they originated in the period of oral tradition which was dominated by the Talmud and the Midrash, so that these treatises are doubtless of great antiquity, some of them having been compiled in their main outlines before even the final redaction of the Talmud in the 6th century.
^Abramowitz, Jack. "The 14 "Minor" Tractates". ou.org. Orthodox Union. Retrieved February 3, 2019.
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilhelm Bacher; Ludwig Blau (1901–1906). "Soferim". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilhelm Bacher; Ludwig Blau (1901–1906). "Soferim". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
