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TALMUD, the great Rabbinical thesaurus which grew up during the first four or six centuries of the Christian Era, and, with the Old Testament, became the " Bible " of the Jews, and the chief subject of their subsequent literary activity. i. Contents. — The Tal ...

TALUS (Lat. for the " ankle-bone "), in architecture, the slope of an embankment wall, which is thicker at the bottom than at the top, to resist the pressure of the earth behind it.

... seek for recreation in literary exercises, chiefly the subtle dialectics of the Talmudists (Loeb, Juif de I'kistoire; Jellinek, Der J iidische Stamm) . Thus, the Jew who emerged from the ghetto was no longer a Palestinian Semite, but an essentially modern Euro ...

... ns." He is sometimes identified with Beelzebub or Apollyon (Rev. ix. n). In the Talmud he plays a great part in the legends concerning Solomon. In the apocryphal book of Tobit (iii. 8)occurs the well-known story of his love for Sara, the beautiful daughter of ...

... ashi (q.v.), was the most famous French glossator (tosafist) on the text of the Talmud. In 1147 he was attacked and injured by a disorderly band who had attached themselves to the Crusaders. He escaped to the neighbouring Troyes, where about 1160 was held the ...

... . 30) amidst the prostrations of the assembled multitude. It is recorded in the Talmud that Rabbis communicated the true pronunciation to their disciples once in seven years (Qiddushin, 7ia). The Jews called the Tetragrammaton by a Hebrew denomination, Shem Ha ...