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  • 33 - The formation and character of the Babylonian Talmud

  • Edited by Steven T. Katz, Boston University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Judaism
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    22 June 2006, pp 840-876

  • Summary

    The Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, was composed by rabbis who flourished from the third to the sixth or seventh centuries CE. Much of the Bavli is a commentary on the Mishnah, a tannaitic work of Palestinian origin consisting primarily of legal statements by rabbis who lived between the first and early third centuries CE. The majority of midrashic statements in the Bavli, and evenmore so in Palestinian compilations, are attributed to Palestinian rabbis. The Bavli, according to "theory of audience", is intended almost exclusively for a rabbinic audience, which explains the inner-directed character of the rabbis it depicts. Close reading of texts from the Bavli illustrates the claim that the Talmud is composed of distinct sources (tannaitic, amoraic, and unattributed) from diverse places and time periods. The first sugya is found on TB Bava B. 168b-169a, a section of the Talmud which deals with property rights.