Don Curzio Nitoglia: The Genesis of the Talmud

ISRAEL/EUGENIO ZOLLI defines the Talmud as the “great corpus of rabbinic traditions” (1).
RICCARDO CALIMANI describes it thus: “A rabbinic belief, which over time spread more and more and became authoritative, came to maintain that Moses had received the total Torah [= Law, ed.] on Mount Sinai, both in written form: Torah or Pentateuch, and in oral form, Mishnah.
Transmitted to Joshua and from him to the elders and then, gradually […], it was entrusted to the memory of the men who materially wrote it. In this new light, the Mishnah […] acquires, as an oral Law transcribed after the Revelation on Sinai, an enormous importance […]. It is not surprising, therefore, that countless commentaries arose from it […].
The amoraim (literally: speakers) were those teachers who, between the 3rd and 5th centuries approximately [AD], succeeded the tannaim (repeaters, teachers, from the 1st to the 3rd century) and gave life to a great commentary called Gemara which, added to the Mishnah, took the …More