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Footnotes

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The Talmud (from the Hebrew, to “study”) is a written compendium of oral law completed by about the fifth century A.D. and is composed of the Mishnah and the Gemara, a commentary on the Mishnah. The Talmud exists in two versions: the Jerusalem and the Babylonian.

Endnotes

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See Claire Epstein, “Hippos,” in Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, vol. 2, ed. Michael Avi-Yonah (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society and Masada Press, 1976), pp. 521–523.

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Gottlieb Schumacher, The Jaulan (London: 1888), pp. 145–146.

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Jerusalem Talmud, Shevi’it 8:3.

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Mendel Nun, Anchorages and Ancient Ports in the Kinneret (Jerusalem: Ariel, 1987) (in Hebrew).