Statement
The Palestinian Talmud mixes Hebrew with the Aramaic spoken in Galilee and is full of words taken over from Greek and Latin, a sign of a Hellenized, Roman Palestine; scholars also sense in it far more hostility toward Rome than the Babylonian Talmud shows toward the Sasanians. It comments on just over half the Mishnah's tractates and mixes biblical interpretation, stories and other material loosely tied to the passage at hand, which gives it an unfinished air. Judging it by the Babylonian Talmud's standard, however, is anachronistic; what matters is that it shows the Mishnah already treated as a quasi-scripture, to be explained, harmonized and mined for legal conclusions.
References
p. 138
supports · main text · ch. 5
Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.
Section: The Age of the Mishnah
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p. 138
supports · main text · ch. 5
Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.
Section: The Age of the Mishnah
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p. 138
supports · main text · ch. 5
Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.
Section: The Age of the Mishnah
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p. 138
supports · main text · ch. 5
Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.
Section: The Age of the Mishnah
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