Major Manuscripts of the Talmud Bavli and Yerushalmi

📜 The Talmuds have a complex transmission history, but we now have excellent tools for exploring their textual variants. We have just one complete manuscript version of each Talmud.

You’re reading Stories from Jewish History, a weekly newsletter exploring Jewish thinkers, events, and artifacts, from the famous to the obscure. We’ve looked at Masoretic codices and important manuscripts of the Mishnah, and today we turn to major manuscripts of the Talmud, both the Bavli and the Yerushalmi. We’ll begin by examining some early statemen…