Thursday, December 16, 2021

New English translation of the Talmud Yerushalmi online

(JERUSALEM) TALMUD WATCH: Intimidated by the Jerusalem Talmud? This publisher is offering a more ‘accessible’ translation (Rudy Malcom, The Forward).
Most people who study Talmud go with the Babylonian one, and pay scant attention to its older, more difficult cousin — the Jerusalem Talmud.

But the nonprofit publisher Sefaria released a new, online English translation of it this week in hopes that more people will delve into the challenging compendium of Jewish law.

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For more on the Sefaria website and its Talmud-related publication see here and links.

Some PaleoJudaica posts on the Talmud Yerushalmi (Palestinian Talmud) are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

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