First, sorry but I had to ask. People often simply accept something they have read without tracking down the sources in order to verify them. Sometimes those citations do not support the claim or simply do not exist at all. That is why I ask for specific references in order to check. It was nothing personal.
Again, thank you are your effort.
Second, Akiba was not creator of the Mishnah.
The Mishnah was compiled ca. A.D. 200 by Judah the Prince who was supposedly born A.D. 135 the same year as Akiba died. The Babylonian Talmud (Kiddushin 72b) states:
The Gemara comments: As the Master said:
While Rabbi Akiva was dying, Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi was born; while Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi was dying, Rav Yehuda was born; while Rav Yehuda was dying, Rava was born; while Ravawas dying, Rav Ashi was born. This teaches you that a righteous person does not leave the world before an equally righteous person is created, as it is stated: “The sun also rises and the sun also sets” (Ecclesiastes 1:5). The same applies to earlier generations: Before Eli’s sun had gone out, Samuel the Ramathite’s sun was already rising, as it is stated: “And the lamp of God was not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying in the Temple of the Lord” (I Samuel 3:3), which teaches that Samuel was already prophesying in the days of Eli.
Judah the Prince is the one who brought together the Jewish oral traditions into a document known as the Mishnah.
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