Babylonian Talmud

ONLY THE HOLY SCRIPTURES ARE INSPIRED. THESE ARE RECORDS OF THE JEWISH TRADITIONS.

Babylonian Talmud VOL I-X in English is a massive work spanning 3.225 pages in total. This English translation was finished and published in 1918 and remains the authoritative version of The Talmud Bavli. It consists of documents compiled over the period of Late Antiquity (3rd to 5th centuries) and it reached its final form in the 7th century.

The Babylonian Talmud comprises the Mishnah and the Babylonian Gemara, the latter representing the culmination of more than 300 years of analysis of the Mishnah in the Talmudic Academies in Babylonia. The foundations of this process of analysis were laid by Abba Arika (175–247), a disciple of Judah ha-Nasi.

The Jerusalem Talmud covers all the tractates of Zeraim, while the Babylonian Talmud covers only tractate Berachot. The reason might be that most laws from the Orders Zeraim (agricultural laws limited to the land of Israel) had little practical relevance in Babylonia and were therefore not included.