ALL meanings of talmud
Tal·mud
T t - noun talmud the collection of Jewish law and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara and being either the edition produced in Palestine a.d. c400 or the larger, more important one produced in Babylonia a.d. c500. 1
- noun talmud the Gemara. 1
- noun talmud book of Jewish religious law 1
- proper noun talmud The Talmud is the collection of ancient Jewish laws which governs the religious and non-religious life of Orthodox Jews. 0
- noun talmud the primary source of Jewish religious law, consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara 0
- noun talmud either of two recensions of this compilation, the Palestinian Talmud of about 375 ad, or the longer and more important Babylonian Talmud of about 500 ad 0
- noun talmud the collection of writings constituting the Jewish civil and religious law: it consists of two parts, the Mishna (text) and the Gemara (commentary), but the term is sometimes restricted to the Gemara 0