Tannaitic literature

The Tosefta ( "supplement, addition") is a compilation of Jewish Oral Law from the late second century CE, the period of the Mishnah and the Jewish sages known as the Tannaim.

thumb|Tanna, the introductory word of a baraita, in a 1743 prayerbook.

2nd-century AD chronology

midrash on the names of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet