CHAPTER III
The Talmud
The Amoraim compile the Palestinian Talmud and the Babylonian Talmud.—Representative Amoraim:
I (220–280) Palestine—Jochanan, Simon, Joshua, Simlai; Babylonia—Rab and Samuel.
II (280–320) Palestine—Ami, Assi, Abbahu, Chiya; Babylonia—Huna and Zeira.
III (320–380) Babylonia—Rabba, Abayi, Rava.
IV (380–430) Babylonia—Ashi (first compilation of the Babylonian Talmud).
V and VI (430–500) Babylonia—Rabina (completion of the Babylonian Talmud).
The Talmud, or Gemara (“Doctrine,” or “Completion”), was a natural development of the Mishnah. The Talmud contains, indeed, many elements as old as the Mishnah, some even older. But, considered as a whole, the Talmud is a commentary on the work of the Tannaim. It is written, not in Hebrew, as the Mishnah is,
