The Babylonian Talmud comprises the Mishnah and the Babylonian Gemara, the latter representing the culmination of centuries of analysis and dialectic surrounding the Mishnah in the Talmudic Academies in Babylonia.

Known simply as the Talmud, the Babylonian Talmud covers almost all of the orders of Moed, Nashim, Nezikin and Kodashim. Zeraim and Taharos are represented by only one tractate each, Berachos and Niddah respectively.

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Nov 21, 2022 · The Babylonian Talmud is a collection of ancient rabbinic writings that were compiled between the 3rd and 5th centuries CE. The Talmud consists of two parts: the Mishnah (a collection of rabbinic oral laws), and the Gemara (a commentary on the Mishnah).

20th-century introductory work to the Jerusalem Talmud and select tractates of the Babylonian Talmud by Jacob Nachum Epstein.

When people speak of “the Talmud,” they are usually referring to the Talmud Bavli (Babylonian Talmud), composed in Babylonia (modern-day Iraq). However, there is also another version of the Talmud, the Talmud Yerushalmi (Jerusalem Talmud), compiled in what is now northern Israel.

The Talmud (meaning instruction or learning) is a central text of Judaism and records rabbinic discussions on Jewish law, ethics, customs, history, and philosophy. The Babylonian Talmud is a compilation of rabbinic opinion written in the third to the fifth centuries in Babylon (present-day Iraq) and in what is today Israel.

A history of the Talmud, starting with its five hundred years of composition from the first to fifth centuries C.E., and its bitter persecution from antiquity, through the Reformation up to the 19th Century. Includes biographies of the dozens of authors who wrote the Talmud, and a detailed bibliography through 1900.

Completed about 600 ce, the Babylonian Talmud served as the constitution and bylaws of Rabbinic Judaism. For a general overview of this subject, see Talmud and Midrash.