单词 | talmud |
释义 | Talmudn. In the wide sense, The body of Jewish civil and ceremonial traditionary law, consisting of the Mishnah n. or binding precepts of the elders, additional to and developed from the Pentateuch, and the later Gemara n. or commentary upon these, forming a complement, explanatory, illustrative, and discursive, to the Mishnah. The term was originally applied to the Gemara, of which two recensions exist, known respectively as the Jerusalem (or Palestinian) and the Babylonian Talmud; to the latter of which the name is in strictest use confined.The precepts of the Mishnah were collected and codified about 200 a.d.; the redaction of the Jerusalem Talmud had reached almost its present form by 408 a.d.; that of the Babylonian Talmud extended from 400 to 500 a.d. ΘΚΠ society > law > written law > [noun] > code of laws > Jewish Talmud1532 society > faith > aspects of faith > law > Jewish law > [noun] Talmud1532 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 679/2 As the Iewes had set vp a boke of their Talmud to destroye the sense of the scripture. 1579 G. Gilpin tr. P. van Marnix van Sant Aldegonde Bee Hiue of Romishe Church i. xii. f. 71v The Iewes Rabbines..with their Caballa, & with their Thalmood. 1636 J. Weemes Treat. Degenerate Sons 349 They say that the text of the Scriptures is like water, and Mishna like wine, and the Talmud like spiced wine... So they compare the Law to salt, Mishna to pepper, and the Talmud to spices. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. v. vii. sig. Ll5 He must devour the tedious and voluminous Rhapsodies that make up the Talmud, in many of which he can scarce learn any thing but the Art of saying nothing in a multitude of words. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) 'Tis the Thalmud of Babylon that is usually read, and that is most consulted among the Jews; so that when they say simply the Thalmud, they always mean this. 1867 Deutsch in Q. Rev. Oct. Between the rugged boulders of the law which bestrew the pass of the Talmud there grow the blue flowers of romance and poetry, in the most catholic and Eastern sense. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1532 |
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