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תלמוד בבלי

Babylonian Talmud — Bavli

The diaspora’s portable homeland for 1,500 years — composed in the academies of Babylonia, c. 500–600 CE.

The Babylonian Talmud is the vast rabbinic discussion built on the Mishnah in the academies of Sura and Pumbedita, reaching closure around 500–600 CE in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic interwoven with Hebrew. For fifteen centuries it functioned as the diaspora’s portable homeland — the book a Jew could carry anywhere and study with anyone.

Daniel Bomberg’s Venice edition (1520–23) fixed the page layout still standard today.

Where was Babylonian Talmud composed?

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Sources & review

  • Berakhot (and full Bavli)
  • Printing histories (Bomberg Venice 1520–23)The edition that fixed the Talmud page.
Reviewed 2026-07-30
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