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May 5, 2021

Creating High-Tech Maps of the Talmud’s Webs of Sages and Citations

“Rabbi Huna said in the name of Rav . . .”

Making use of software that can analyze large collections of interrelated data, scholars of Jewish religious history have begun trying to make maps of the connections among various rabbis. Michael Satlow, who is engaged in one of these projects, explains the specific problem presented by the Talmud that he seeks to address:

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