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Abbasid Caliphate,  Ashkenazic Jewry Abraham Joshua Heschel School,  and Christian scholarship,  Abulafia,  authority academies rabbinic,  Babylonian, –, See also yeshivah, in of Talmud,  Babylonia Avodah Zarah (tractate geonic. See academies, Babylonian Bavli a,  Acts, Book of,  Avot (tractate), ,  al-Andalus. See Azariah de Rossi,  Albeck, Hanokh, ,  Alexander, ,  Ba’al Shem Tov, – Alfasi, –,  Baba Batra (tractate) Alma,  Bavli b, Tosafot on, – amora Bavli b-a, – definition,  Baba Metzia (tractate) Amoraic period,  Bavli b-b, – Amoraic tradition :,  development of,  Baba Metziah (tractate) amoraim Mishnah :,  and argumentation, – Mishnah :,  authority of, ,  Baba Qamma (tractate) description of, – Bavli a, – early activity, – Babylonia and reasoning,  as biblical Jewish homeland,  textual criticism of Mishnah,  Jews and neighbors in,  Anan ben David,  Jews in,  ancestral law, Jewish, ,  persecution of Jews in,  Antiochus Epiphanes, ,  rabbinic immigration to,  Antiquities of the Jews (Josephus),  Babylonian exile, – Apocrypha, , –, ,  Babylonian rabbinic authority, decline of, Aqiba, ,  – Aramaic Babylonian Talmud. See Bavli as Babylonian tongue,  Baghdad, , –, ,  Arba’ah Turim,  Bar Kokhba, ,  argumentation baraita in the Bavli. See Bavli, and argumentation definition,  Artscroll (Schottenstein) Talmud, Baruch, II, ,  – Bavli. See also Talmud Ashi (Rav),  aggadah in, – Ashkenaz,  as anthology, 

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as anticode,  Chorin, Aaron,  and argumentation, , –, ,  Christian emperors,  argumentation in,  Christian Hebraists, ,  ascendency of,  Christian population in Palestine,  authority of,  Christian writings, early,  avoidance of conclusions in, , ,  Christianity “Babylonian-ness” of,  in Babylonia,  closure of,  conversion to,  commentaries on,  doctrine of “true Israel”,  contrasted with Yerushalmi, – in Jewish opinion,  difficulty of, – in rabbinic literature,  elitism of, –, – rise of, , –, ,  in,  and the Talmud, –,  as halakhic code,  Christians as Mishnah commentary,  and the Talmud orality of,  in modernity, –, – and process, – Cohen, Shaye, ,  reason in,  commentaries rhetoric of,  Talmudic, see Talmud, commentaries on and reason, –,  Conservative Judaism and Talmud study,  and scripture, – Constantine, ,  as a symbol of diaspora,  Coursera, ,  and tradition, – as transcript of deliberations in academy,  daf yomi, , – and truth, – Daniel, Book of,  textual criticism in,  Dead Sea Scrolls, , , – textual history of demons controversies, – in the Bavli,  theology of,  Diocletian,  unattributed voice, –,  Diqdukei Soferim,  beit midrash (traditional study hall),  disciple circles, , ,  Ben Sira, Book of, ,  in Babylonia,  Bibles, polyglot,  disputations on Talmud, – biblical Judaism,  Dolgopolski, Sergey, ,  Bomberg Talmud,  Donin, Nicholas,  Bomberg, Daniel,  Dreifuss, Rabbi Yair,  Bonayich (Talmud curriculum),  Boyarin, Daniel,  eating laws, Jewish,  on Talmudic argumentation, – Ecclesiastes. See Kohelet Brettler, Marc,  Edict of Milan,  Brody, Robert, – Eduyot (tractate),  burial, Jewish, ,  Mishnah :-, – Eisenstein, Elizabeth,  Calderon, Ruth,  Elijah of Vilna, , , , – Campanton, Isaac,  as defender of Talmud,  canonization Elimelekh of Lezhansk,  of Tanakh,  emancipation of Jews,  Caro, Joseph,  En Yaaqov, ,  censorship Enlightenment, the, ; see also haskalah in the sixteenth century,  Epiphanius,  censorship of Talmud. See Talmud, Epistles, of Paul,  censorship of Eruvin (tractate) Chabad (Lubavitch),  Bavli a,  and online Talmud study,  Bavli b,  Chiarini, Luigi, – Mishnah, relationship to scripture, 

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Esau Halivni, David, , , , ,  representing Rome,  on reception of Mishnah,  exilarch, ,  Hananel, Rabbenu,  the and,  Hasidism, , –, ,  Ezra,  proliferation of,  Ezra, Book of,  as a reform movement,  Ezra, IV, – and Talmud, – haskalah, –, ,  Fisch, Menachem, – Hasmonean kingdom,  Fishman, David,  Hauptman, Judith,  Fishman, Talya, –, ,  Hayyim of Volozhin, , , – critique of, – Hebrew, Frankel, Zechariah biblical, ,  on the Yerushalmi,  Mishnaic,  Frankfurt Reformfreunde,  Hebrew University,  French Revolution,  Heine, Heinrich,  Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Society,  Helena (mother of Constantine),  Friedman, Shamma,  Hellenistic Fustat,  cultural influence, – Hellenistic kingdoms,  Galilee,  Hellenization, , , ,  “gap year” in Israel,  Heller, Marvin,  Geiger, Abraham,  Herod (king),  gemara Herodian kings, ,  definition,  Hillel, , ,  as replacement for “Talmud,”  histories, biblical,  Genizah, Cairo, ,  Holdheim, Samuel,  geonim,  holidays, Jewish,  commentaries on Bavli,  Hullin (tractate) Gittin (tractate) Bavli b-a, Tosafot on, – Bavli b, – Bavli b,  Bavli b-a,  Mishnah,  Bavli a-b,  Goitein, S.D.,  Ibn Daud,  on literacy,  Ibn Habib, Jacob,  Goodblatt, David,  Ilan, Tal,  Gospels, the,  impurity, ritual,  Gray, Alyssa,  Innocent IV, Pope,  Greek, , ,  innovation, rabbinic,  in the Mishnah,  Islamic conquest,  Gregory IX, Pope,  Islamicate Jewry Grossman, Avraham and Arabic,  on decline of Babylonian academies, Israel, land of,   Isserles, Moses,  Gutenberg, Johannes,  ,  Hadrian,  Jaffee, Martin, – Hagigah (tractate) on Bavli,  Mishnah :,  Jerome,  Hai Gaon, ,  Jerusalem (by Moses Mendelssohn), – halakhah,  Jerusalem Talmud. See Yerushalmi and aggadah,  Jesus,  books of,  in the Talmud,  definition,  Jewish day schools, Orthodox,  halakhic digests,  Jewish population, in the Galilee, 

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reason, as human,  Shmuel HaNagid, – Reform,  Shulchan Arukh, , ,  American Sinai and Talmud study,  revelation at,  and the Talmud, – Solomon Schechter schools,  Rehov synagogue, ,  Soloveichik, Hayim,  Resh Laqish,  Soncino Press, ,  Revelation, Book of,  Spain,  revolt, Jewish,  Muslim, – ritual baths,  Spinoza,  Roman stam. See Bavli: unattributed voice cultural influence, ,  Steinsaltz, Adin, –, ,  domination of Palestine,  Stern, Eliyahu,  policy in Palestine,  Surenhusius, Willem,  writers,  Sussman, Yaakov Romm publishers. See Vilna Shas on “Oral Torah,” – Rosenberg, Rabbi Shimon Gershon, SVARA, –  synagogue, the,  Rosensweig, Michael,  synagogues,  Rosh Yeshiva,  Palestinian,  Rubenstein, Jeffrey,  Rustow, Marina Talmud on “triumph” of Bavli,  anthologies of,  authority of,  Saadiah Gaon, –,  burning of, , –,  Sabbateanism,  censorship of, –, – sacrifices,  commentaries on, , –,  sacrificial cult,  feminist,  Sadducees,  difficulty of,  Safrai, Zeev,  fixing of text,  Samson of Sens,  and gender studies,  Samuel (rabbi), ,  geonic canonization of,  Sanhedrin (tractate) as halakhic source, – Bavli a,  and the Holocaust, – Sassanian empire, ; see also Persia, on Jesus,  Sassanian and Jewish gender roles,  Schottenstein. See Artscroll (Schottenstein) manuscripts of,  Talmud meaning of,  Schwartz, Seth, , , , ,  modern methods of study, Secunda, Shai, ,   Sefaria.org,  modern printings of, – Selden, John,  orality of,  Seleucid kingdom,  printing of Sepphoris, , ,  history,  Shabbat (tractate) publication of,  Bavli a,  study of Mishnah :,  contemporary,  Mishnah, relationship to scripture,  translations of, , , – Yerushalmi : (b-c), – English,  Shabbatai Zevi,  German,  Shammai, ,  Hebrew,  Shanks Alexander, Elizabeth, , – trial of,  Shapiro, Meir (Rabbi),  Talmud blog, The,  Sherira Gaon, Rav, , ,  Talmud manuscripts Shimon ben Kosiba. See Bar Kokhba digitization of, 

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