Egyptian-Hebrew stream·Babylonian Talmud·Explanatory Remarks
Vol II — Explanatory Remarks (interpolated)
Editorial interpolated explanatory remarks between tractates within Vol II. Standard editorial notes on translation conventions.
Source context
- Theme
- editorial and hermeneutical apparatus for navigating Talmudic text
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Talmudic philology (rabbinic tradition)Explanatory remarks in Talmudic editions function as a layer of meta-commentary structurally parallel to the Masoretic apparatus, both serving to stabilize and mediate authoritative oral tradition for later readers.
- Scholastic glosses (Christian medieval tradition)The practice of embedding explanatory remarks within canonical texts shows cross-tradition congruence with the scholastic gloss tradition, where marginal annotation was the primary vehicle for transmitting interpretive consensus.
Explanatory Remarks
p. ii
In our translation we adopted these principles:
1*Tenan* of the original--We have learned in a Mishna; *Tania*--We have, learned in a Boraitha; *Itemar*--It was taught.
2Questions are indicated by the interrogation point, and are immediately followed by the answers, without being so marked.
3When in the original there occur two statements separated by the phrase, *Lishna achrena* or *Waïbayith Aema* or *Ikha d'amri* (literally, "otherwise interpreted"), we translate only the second.
4As the pages of the original are indicated in our new Hebrew edition, it is not deemed necessary to mark them in the English edition, this being only a translation from the latter.
5Words or passages enclosed in round parentheses () denote the explanation rendered by Rashi to the foregoing sentence or word. Square parentheses [] contained commentaries by authorities of the last period of construction of the Gemara.
COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY MICHAEL L. RODKINSON. COPYRIGHT 1916, By NEW TALMUD PUBLISHING SOCIETY p. iii TO ERASMES GEST, ESQ. OF CINCINNATI, OHIO MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THE EDITOR