Italians, Helped by an App, Translate the Talmud
Consisting of 5,422 pages of Hebrew and Aramaic, the Babylonian Talmud originally completed 1,500 years ago has defied widespread translation. By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO, The New York Times, APRIL 5, 2016
ROME — Spanning six centuries of religious and legal teachings touching on astronomy, medicine, ethics, philosophy and more, the Babylonian Talmud is so complex, it has rarely been translated.
But on Tuesday, after five years of labor by dozens of scholars, linguists, philologists and editors — as well as a crew of computer scientists and researchers — a state-funded “Project Talmud” presented the first volume of the first-ever Italian translation.