Monday, June 3, 2024

Rashi was right: Machine learning confirms unique status of some Talmudic tracts

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/rashi-was-right-machine-learning-confirms-unique-status-of-some-talmudic-tracts/

Rabbinical commentators on the Talmud noted in the medieval era that a handful of sections of the great corpus stood out linguistically from the rest. Over generations of scholars, the existence of these so-called “special tractates” was considered to be a clue that could further elucidate how the Talmud was compiled and edited.

Now via modern data analysis, a team of contemporary researchers has shown that these “special tractates” do indeed display a distinct use of language. After feeding nearly the entire Talmudic corpus into machine learning algorithms to parse the Aramaic, they confirmed the theories of Rashi and other medieval scholars.

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