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Editor's Preface
Part I (Introductions to Tractates of the Babli)
Part II (Notes and Interpretations for Chapters of the Talmud)
Part III (Introduction to Talmud Yerushalmi)
Time and Place of EditSwitched SugiyotTractate Nezikin (Baba Kamma, Baba Metzia, Baba Batra)Yerushalmi and Bereshit RabbahBabli and YerushalmiThey said in the west (Amrei BeMaarava) etcThey asked in the west (Bau BeMaarava) etcThey laughed about it in the west (Machku Ala BeMaarava)They stated in the west (BeMaarava Matnu) and the Sugiya Edit by the Westerners (Maaravai)Babylonian Sugiyot in the YerushalmiThere (in Babylonia) they are saying (Taman Amrin) and the Rabbis of Babylonia as quoted in the YerushalmiParallels and Copies of SugiyotCopying Sugiyot with Geresh SignOmissionsYerushalmi Kodashim
Part IV (Variae Lectiones for the Yerushalmi)
PrefaceBerakhotPeahDemaiKilaimSheviitTerumotMaaserotMaaser SheniChallahOrlahBikkurimShabbatEruvinPesachimYomaShekalimSukkahRosh HaShanahBeitzahTaaniotMegillahChagigaMoed Katan (Mashqin)YevamotSotahKetubotNedarimGittinNazirKiddushinBaba KammaBaba MetziaBaba BatraSanhedrinMakkotShevuotAvodah ZarahHorayotNiddah
Addenda to Variae Lectiones for the Yerushalmi
Supplements to Variae Lectiones for the YerushalmiAppendix (Regarding the Epistle of Rav Sherira Gaon)AbbreviationsAbout This Text
Author: Jacob Nachum Epstein
Mevo’ot LeSifrut HaAmoraim (Introductions to Amoraic Literature) is a 20th-century work by renowned Talmud scholar Jacob Nachum Epstein. It includes an introduction to the Jerusalem Talmud, introductions to nine tractates of the Babylonian Talmud, and textual variants for select Jerusalem Talmud tractates. Originally compiled as lectures delivered by Epstein, the work was edited and published posthumously at his request by his student, Ezra Melamed.