8 Matching Annotations
  1. May 2024
    1. This Mishna seems to be laying out a framework for all of Bava Kama, which is interesting. It's interesting because of the ambition, but the Gemara seems to play along.

    1. יֵשׁ מֵהֶן כַּיּוֹצֵא בָּהֶן

      Why draw attention to the similarities if the immediate following paragraphs only discuss things which differ? Each subcategory remains separate, and I'm not sure I get it.

    2. אַרְבָּעָה

      This the core of this Daf, perhaps the whole Mishna. Possibly even setting the structure likely for the whole masekhet.

  2. Dec 2023
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    1. printed page of the Talmud as a document.

      https://mitpressonpubpub.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/syyor4ra/release/1?readingCollection=31668090

      From Chapter 3 of Remi Kalir and Antero Garcia's book Annotation.

      I've referenced this image so many times, I ought to finally bookmark it, right?

      Ted Nelson shows a similar one when talking about Project Xanadu and the importance of parallel texts.

  4. Apr 2021
    1. Instead what he said first inspired him were Talmudic texts, quotes from the original source on a page surrounded by the commentaries of Talmudic scholars interpreting the text, and reacting to one another’s reinterpretations. “Am I saying we should be Talmudic writers? I think one can be worse things.”
  5. Jun 2019
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    1. Some of the most significant commentary about the Talmud, first written in the eleventh century, has been featured prominently as annotation in print editions since the early 1500s.

      Surprisingly, these have only been recently aggregated online at Sefaria a story delineated here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2018/09/18/quest-put-talmud-online/

  7. Dec 2015
    1. has used annotations (and the related techniques of footnotes and citations) extensively for centuries

      In some non-trivial ways, this might be key to how people have defined “scholars”, including religious ones.