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Talmud
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The Talmud as a Compendium of Jewish Life and Teaching 1. “The Talmud and all of its expansions form the backbone of Jewish tradition.”1 The Talmud (Heb.,
talmud, ‘study,’ ‘instruction,’ ‘doctrine’) is appropriately described as
the compendium of the life and teaching of Judaism since the end of ancient times. More narrowly, this is true only of the
Babylonian Talmud, so called from the place of its emergence in the Jewish academies of Sura and Pumbedita in Babylonia, from the fifth to the early eighth century. This text is what “
the Talmud” usually indicates. The Jerusalem, or Pales…
Source:
The Brill Dictionary of Religion
