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The two most important works of post-Biblical
Jewish literature, the Babylonian and the
Palestinian (or Jerusalem) Talmud provide a
compilation of ancient Jewish law and
tradition. The Babylonian Talmud was edited
at the end of the 5th century AD and is the
more authoritative version for later Judaism;
both Talmuds are written in a mix of Hebrew
and Aramaic. They contain the commentary
(gemara) on the Mishnah (early rabbinical
commentaries compiled c. AD 200), and the
material can be generally divided into
halakhah, consisting of legal and ritual
matters, and aggadah, concerned with ethical,
theological, and folklorist matters.