Talmud finally indexed
Jan. 29th, 2012 06:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I'm a little surprised it took this long-- the computer resources to make the task relatively manageable have been around for 30 years or more, I think.
The Talmud is a formidable body of work: 63 volumes of rabbinical discourse and disputation that form Judaism’s central scripture after the Torah. It has been around for 1,500 years and is studied every day by tens of thousands of Jews. But trying to navigate through its coiling labyrinth can be enormously difficult because the one thing this monumental work lacks is a widely accepted and accessible index.
I'm a little surprised it took this long-- the computer resources to make the task relatively manageable have been around for 30 years or more, I think.
