The Structured Mishnah Dataset: 525 Chapters in Two-Dimensional Literary Format (JSON)

The complete Hebrew text of the Mishnah — all six orders, 63 tractates, and 525 chapters — encoded as a structured JSON dataset. Each chapter is represented as a two-dimensional matrix with cell-level position labels, mishnah verse numbers, and structural markers identifying horizontal parallels, vertical threads, internal parallels, chiastic patterns, and envelope closures. This dataset is the machine-readable counterpart to "The Structured Mishnah" (המשנה כדרכה), first published in print in 1992 and available as a free PDF at https://chaver.com/Mishnah-New/Hebrew/Text/mishnah-pdf. Key statistics:- 525 chapters across 63 tractates in 6 orders- 4,467 cells with structural position labels- 3,853 cells with Hebrew-letter subdivisions- 6,953 structural marker spans across 8 marker types- 505 of 525 chapters (96.2%) exhibit palindromic symmetry in their row shapes The dataset encodes three kinds of information that no other digital Mishnah edition publishes: 1. The row and column shape of every chapter — the structural fingerprint that records how many cells occupy each row (e.g., Taanit chapter 1 has the palindromic shape [1, 3, 2, 3, 1]). 2. Structural markers within cells — horizontal parallels, vertical threads, internal parallels, and envelope closures that link cells to one another within and across rows. 3. Cell subdivisions — internal divisions within cells where a single column position contains multiple discrete units of content. The methodology was first published in:- Kline, Moshe. "The Literary Structure of the Mishnah (Eruvin Chapter X)." Alei Sefer 14 (1987): 5–28. Related publications:- Kline, Moshe. Before Chapter and Verse: Reading the Woven Torah. 2022. ISBN 978-9655982718.- Kline, Moshe, and Paul Hocking. Journal of Biblical Literature 144, no. 1 (2025). Landing page: https://chaver.com/Mishnah-New/Hebrew/Text/mishnah-dataFull Mishnah portal: https://chaver.com/Mishnah/TheMishnah.htm How to cite:Kline, Moshe (2026). The Structured Mishnah Dataset: 525 Chapters in Two-Dimensional Literary Format (JSON) [Data set]. Zenodo. (DOI will appear here after publication.)