The
Jerusalem Talmud (,
Talmud Yerushalmi, often
Yerushalmi for short), also known as the
Palestinian Talmud or
Talmuda de-Eretz Yisrael (Talmud of the Land of Israel), is a collection of
Rabbinic notes on the 2nd-century Jewish
oral tradition known as the
Mishnah. These latter names are considered more accurate by some because, while the work was certainly composed in "the West" (i.e. the
Holy Land), it originates from the
Galilee area rather than from
Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Talmud was compiled in the
Land of Israel during the 4th-5th centuries CE, then divided between the Byzantine provinces of
Palaestina Prima and
Palaestina Secunda. The Jerusalem Talmud predates its counterpart, the
Babylonian Talmud (also known as the
Talmud Bavli), by about 200 years and is written in both
Hebrew and
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic.