Издатель: CINCINNATI
Год издания: 1996
Количество страниц: 261
Язык: English
To an older stage of language belong also magical formulae,
exorcisms and some proverbs. To a later period belong minor
additions of the Saboraim and Geonim.1
As might have been expected from the compilatory nature of the
Talmud, its language is not uniform, but shows traces of various
stages of development. Originally, the dialectical and
chronological variations must have been quite marked. But in course
of time these differences were smoothed down by later scholars,
familiar forms and expressions being substituted for rare ones, and
dialectical characteristics have thus largely been obliterated.
Traces of a more original character have been preserved in a few
treatises containing laws of no practical application after the
destruction of the Temple. Such treatises were not frequently
studied in the schools and therefore were not subjected to the
process of obliteration as much as other parts of the Talmud. Here
belong, among others.