Der Babylonische Talmud

The foundations of Jewish religious laws, which are still valid for Judaism today, were definitively established during rabbinical times after the destruction of the Second Temple. The first written codified work, the Hebrew Mishnah, was largely commented on in Aramaic from the 3rd century onward and took on an authoritative form in the Babylonian Talmud, which subsequently had a lasting impact on all Jewish spheres of life. Jakob Fromer, the translator and editor of a selection from the Babylonian Talmud that is still representative in its contexts and contents, first published in Berlin in 1924, was educated in the traditional framework of Talmudic study before his academic career. His stated goal, which he connected with his philological exploration of the Talmud, was to provide access to the most important source of the Jewish religion for a Western European audience.