1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
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 Talmud (Hebrew " teaching, learning ") consists of the Mishnah (Heb. " [oral] repetition, teaching "), a systematic collection of religious-legal decisions developing the laws of the Old Testament, and the Gemara (Aramaic " completion, decision," or perhaps also …
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- Vol. 26, pp. 380-380