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The Babylonian Talmud: A Translation and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Talmud of Babylonia (a.k.a., the Bavli, or Babylonian Talmud), is a sustained commentary on the written and oral law of Israel. Compiled between 500–600 C.E., it offers a magnificent record of how Jewish scholars preserved a humane and enduring civilization. Representing the primary document of rabbinic Judaism, it throws considerable light on the New Testament as well. This monumental...

it was brought to closure in the province of Babylonia near present day Baghdad then under Iranian (Sasanian) rule. Jews had lived there in numbers for more than a thousand years stretching back to the time of Jeremiah and the destruction of the first Temple of Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E. The Gemara brought the Mishnah “down to earth” by focusing attention on the application of the laws that continued to pertain in the new environment following the destruction of the second Temple, the Mishnah’s laws
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