Ezra Brand (@ezrabrand): "Re-post, on the occasion of daf yomi studying the folio of Talmud that includes the passage in the appendix of this piece (first published 8 months ago): "The Galilean Oil Tycoon: The agent of Laodicea, the Farmer of Gush Ḥalav, and the Olive Oil Wealth of Asher’s Land (Menachot…"

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Re-post, on the occasion of daf yomi studying the folio of Talmud that includes the passage in the appendix of this piece (first published 8 months ago): "The Galilean Oil Tycoon: The agent of Laodicea, the Farmer of Gush Ḥalav, and the Olive Oil Wealth of Asher’s Land (Menachot 85b)".

The passage starts in ChavrutAI here:

chavrutai.com/talmud/Me…

Large Numbers (≥100) in the Talmud: A Data Analysis

The Talmud, a vast collection of Jewish law and commentary spanning 5,000+ pages, contains extensive numerical references. Using computational text analysis, we extracted every number of 100 or greater from the complete text to examine how numbers function in this ancient corpus.

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Apr 6

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Large Numbers (≥100) in the Talmud: A Data Analysis

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