Oral tradition and Rabbinic studies

Abstract

The literature of classical rabbinic Judaism is usually said to have been "redacted" from around 300 CE until about 700 CE in the Palestinian and Mesopotamian centers of rabbinic settlement. Rabbinic literature itself assumes that the traditions that stand behind the written texts were transmitted orally for at least several generations (and in some views, centuries) prior to the compilation of the written manuscripts that are known from the Middle Ages.

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