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According to the Gemara on our daf, the juxtaposition of these two tractates is based on stylistic concerns.
One of the last Mishnayot in Massekhet Makkot teaches the law restricting the way a Jewish man can cut his hair, and there, too, we find that two laws of hair-cutting extend to a number of laws, similar to the list of “two that are four” rules in our Mishna (see yesterday’s daf).
One of the issues os the attribution of the stam mishnah : As Rabbi Yoḥanan says: The halakha is always in accordance with the ruling of an unattributed mishna. Since the mishna here is unattributed and assumes that one is flogged for taking a false oath, Rabbi Yoḥanan should rule that this is the halakha.
We explore latter day scholars (Frankel, Guttman, Lieberman, Halivni) on the question of anonymous authorship in the Mishnah exposing a broader tension between historical recovery and legal continuity.