The Mishnayot of Masekhet Megillah ("Tractate Scroll") were compiled, along with the rest of the Mishnah, by the second or third centuries CE by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi.

[14] In the same standard Talmudic fashion, the Gemara goes through each law of the Mishnah, quoting Tannaim and Amoraim's statements on the topics.

[18] The laws regarding reading the Megillah were codified in various halakhic codes, notably including Maimonides's Mishneh Torah and the Shulchan Aruch, Rabbi Joseph Karo's (Beit Yosef) widely accepted code of halakha; they make up the majority of the 690th topic on the latter's Orach Chayim (daily life) section.

[21] Masechet Megillah outlines, to at least some degree, the ways in which Jews of all denominations observe the holiday of Purim today.

[26] When discussing that Mishnah in a separate conversation, Masechet Arakhin adds that listing those groups as disallowed serves to include women.

[34] The second halakha of modern import is regarding public reading of the Torah,[5] which occurs on Mondays, Thursdays, Shabbatot, and holidays and fast days[11]—quoting the Tosefta, the gemara lays out that while there is no inherent issue with women reading from the Torah, the sages maintained that they should not do so out of respect for the congregation.