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The rabbis are as important today as they were two thousand years ago, at the dawn of the literature that came to be named after them. The Mishnah, the Tosefta, the Talmud, the collections of Midrash, and other writings ascribed to the ancient rabbis—the oral Torah—were gradually produced between the first and the seventh centuries of the Common Era. What began as the rabbis’ comments and...

A simple definition follows from what has been said. Rabbinic literature is the corpus of writing produced in the first seven centuries C.E. by sages who claimed to stand in the chain of tradition from Sinai and uniquely to possess the oral part of the Torah, revealed by God to Moses at Sinai for oral formulation and oral transmission, in addition to the written part of the Torah possessed by all Israel. Among the many diverse documents produced by Jews in late antiquity,
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