Jews with hope amid the threatening prospects of life.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

JOSEPHUS.

Whiston's English Translation, revised by Shilleto (1889).

Graetz.--II, p. 276 [278].

SIBYLLINE ORACLES.

S.A. Hirsch.--_Jewish Sibylline Oracles_, _J.Q.R._, II, p. 406.




CHAPTER III

THE TALMUD

The Amoraim compile the Palestinian Talmud and the Babylonian
Talmud.--Representative Amoraim:
I (220-280) Palestine--Jochanan, Simon, Joshua, Simlai;
Babylonia--Rab and Samuel.
II (280-320) Palestine--Ami, Assi, Abbahu, Chiya;
Babylonia--Huna and Zeira.
III (320-380) Babylonia--Rabba, Abayi, Rava.
IV (380-430) Babylonia--Ashi (first compilation of the