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H.H
Oct 24, 2006

August is the Cruelest Month

Loeb CL posted:

I've always liked the text-layout of the Babylonian Talmud:



The thing to remember about the Talmud is that the surrounding commentary was written gradually over a period of centuries after the original text. Since there was a need for the commentary to correspond to the text, and there were different layers of it, so to speak, it all had to fit on the same page. This brought about the special layout, which is very distinctive.

This in turn influenced other Jewish texts, such as this:




Without going into too many details, the above page contains, other than the text, a translation into Aramaic, 6 blocks of commentary and a commentary of the translation.

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