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Also known as the Yerushalmi or Jerusalem Talmud. It is also referred to as the Palestinian Talmud.

Tanakh is an acronym that stands for Torah, Nebiim (prophets) and Ketubim (sacred writings).

Jewish wisdom literature includes the books of Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes in the Hebrew Bible, as well as Sirach and Wisdom in the wider canon accepted by the Catholic church.

The Torah is, in the narrow sense, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible (Genesis through Deuteronomy). In its broader sense, it describes the fullness of God’s instruction or revelation to Israel.

The Hasmoneans are also called the Maccabees. They led the Jewish uprising against the Syrian king Antiochus IV Epiphanes and reestablished the Jewish Temple worship in 164 B.C.

Eschatological refers to the end of time, when the condition of the world will radically change.

The verse reads that Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes “to the effect that the king had given permission to the Jews in every single city to organize themselves and to defend themselves, to wipe out, slaughter and annihilate every armed force of any people or province that was hostile to them, along with their children and women, and to plunder their personal property.”

The Mishnah, Hebrew for “oral law,” is a collection of primarily halakic (legal) traditions complied about 200 A.D. It is the basic part of the Talmud.