How do you look up a reference in the Talmud?

Steve Nicholson
Steve Nicholson Member Posts: 91 ✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

I have purchased the Jerusalem & Babylonian Talmuds but have not found it possible to look up references to the Talmud from other resources in my Library. There does not appear to be hyperlinking from other resources to the Talmud that I can find. It appears that we still have to manually locate a talmudic reference - is this correct? If so, this is a great disappointment since it is one of the principal reasons that I purchased the Talmud. Has anyone devised a quick way to look up references to the Talmud in other resources in the Talmud itself?

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 54,773

    See http://community.logos.com/forums/p/34725/260993.aspx

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  • Jonathan Pitts
    Jonathan Pitts Member Posts: 670 ✭✭

    The presence of hyperlinks depends on those links having been created when the referring book was first published by Logos. New resources should start to have links to the Talmud. Some older resources are also being retagged: this is going to be important for resources like Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary, which has thousands of missing links to Logos resources that have been published subsequently. However, for links from commentaries, I think we may be waiting a long time.

    The syntax also seems to have to be exact, making it difficult to simply copy and paste a reference from a commentary to the reference box at the top of the Talmud resource. I find the easiest way to work is to use the table of contents to find the correct tractate. Once the correct abbreviation is shown in the reference box, I can then type in the page or section number that I want.

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