Talmud Bavli

Merkabah - Heikhalot Literature and "Four Entered Pardes"
... portion of the Heichalot literature and the Bavli's treatment of "The Work of the Chariot" in the presentation and analysis of such in the Gemara to tractate Hagigah of the ... This portion of the Babylonian Talmud, which includes the famous "four entered pardes" material, runs from 12b-iv (wherein the Gemara's treatment of the "Work of Creation" flows into and ... However, in both the Jerusalem Talmud and the Babylonian Talmud the major players in this Chariot/Throne endeavor are, clearly, Rabbi Akiva and Elisha ben Abuyah who is referred to as "Akher." Neither Talmud presents ...

Talmudists - Translations - Talmud Bavli
... of a series of articles on Editions of the Babylonian Talmud Editions Neusner Translation · Rodkinson Translation · Schottenstein Edition · Soncino ... of Rabbi Steinsaltz' complete Hebrew language translation of and commentary on the entire Talmud ... Schottenstein Edition of the Talmud, Mesorah Publications ...

Talmudists - Bavli and Yerushalmi - Talmud Bavli (Babylonian Talmud)
... The Talmud Bavli consists of documents compiled over the period of Late Antiquity (3rd to 5th centuries) ... Talmud Bavli (the "Babylonian Talmud") comprises the Mishnah and the Babylonian Gemara, the latter representing the culmination of more than 300 years of analysis of the Mishnah ... Tradition ascribes the compilation of the Babylonian Talmud in its present form to two Babylonian sages, Rav Ashi and Ravina ...

Avodah Zarah - Talmud Bavli
... This Gemara on Avodah Zarah was the main target of controversy and criticism ... Of all the texts in Rabbinic Judaism, this is probably the one in which it is most difficult to obtain an "authentic" version as almost all the pages have had censorship imposed ...