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The Church Fathers · c. 400

The Jerusalem Talmud

Talmud Yerushalmi

The academies of Galilee

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What it is

The Mishnah with the discussion the Galilean academies built around it, closed abruptly and unevenly — whole orders are missing — apparently because the conditions that supported the schools gave out under Christian imperial rule.

Why it lasted

Compiled in the province where the church was building its holy places, and the only rabbinic work produced under a Christian government rather than a Persian one. Its abrupt ending is itself evidence about the fourth century in Palestine.

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Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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