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 Babylonian Talmud).
V and VI (430-500) Babylonia--Rabina (completion of the Babylonian Talmud).
The _Talmud_, or _Gemara_ ("Doctrine," or "Completion"), was a natural development of the Mishnah.

The Talmud contains, indeed, many elements as old as the Mishnah, some even older.

But, considered as a whole, the Talmud is a commentary on the work of the Tannaim.

It is written, not in Hebrew, as the Mishnah is, but in a popular Aramaic.

There are two distinct works to which the title Talmud is applied; the one is the Jerusalem Talmud (completed about the year 370 C.E.), the other the Babylonian (completed a century later).