Talmud: Timeline

20   Died

200   Jew Jew

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ish Eretz Yisraeli scholar Judah ha-Nasi compiles tracts of the Mishnah, beginning the creation of Talmudic law.

375   The Talmud of Babylon Talmud

The Talmud is a record of rabbi [i]nic discussions pertaining to Jewish law [i], ethics [i] ... 

 written by Rav Ashi. This commentary on the Mishnah contains approximately 2.5 million words on 5,894 pages.

475   Completion of the compilation of the Babylonian talmud Talmud

The Talmud is a record of rabbi [i]nic discussions pertaining to Jewish law [i], ethics [i] ... 

, the source of the majority of Jewish Halakha

550   The main redaction of Babylonian Talmud is completed under Rabbis Ravina and Ashi (approximate date).

1263   Nahmanides, chief rabbi Rabbi

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 of Catalonia Catalonia

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, defends the Talmud in an important disputation against Pablo Christiani before King James I of Aragon James I of Aragon

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.

1264   In Barcelona Barcelona

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, a commission of Dominicans Dominican Order

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 censors portions of the Talmud for the first time by ordering the cancellation of passages found reprehensible from a Christian Christianity

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 point of view.

1275   The era of the ''tosafot'', Medieval commentators on the Talmud, ends (began 1100).

1415   Antipope Antipope

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 Benedict XIII orders all Talmuds to be delivered to diocese and held until further notice