Talmud
(Heb.)
Rabbinic Commentaries on the Jewish faith. It is composed of two parts, the older Mishnah, and the more modern Gemara. Hebrews, who call the Pentateuch the written law, call the Talmud the unwritten or oral law. [w.w.w.] The Talmud contains the civil and canonical laws of the Jews, who claim a great sanctity for it. For, save the above‐stated difference between the Pentateuch and the Talmud, the former, they say, can claim no priority over the latter, as both were received simultaneously by Moses on Mount Sinai from Jehovah, who wrote the one and delivered the other orally. (TG).
Zirkoff's appendix points readers to BCW Vol. VIII, p. 416, for a fuller discussion, and to I. O. M. Deutsch's article in the Quarterly Review for October 1867. (BCW 1:528).
The bibliography names the tractates Sotah and Sanhedrin and directs the reader to further information in volume VIII of the collected writings. (BCW 4:666).
The great Rabbinical thesaurus reduced to writing during the second, fourth and sixth centuries of our era (BCW 8:416).
Some links:
- Quotes: H. P. Blavatsky, Zirkoff, Boris
- CTD article in Russian: Талмуд
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