I am projecting to my hoped audience of Jews ---and Orthodox Jews in particular--- a very different accounting of Judaism in general; an accounting with emphasis on Scripture, first and foremost. And then there are the more nuanced offerings of portions of our Talmud Bavli produced by those subtle “final anonymous editors” of our Bavli from roughly 575 to roughly 610ce. Subtlety was the only coinage in this orchestration by the ‘final anonymous editors’. The over-arching power of Rabbinic Officialdom could be checked only by subtle and indirect insertions into “The Record”...

I am projecting to my hoped audience of Jews ---and Orthodox Jews in particular--- a very different accounting of Judaism in general; an accounting with emphasis on Scripture, first and foremost. And then there are the more nuanced offerings of portions of our Talmud Bavli produced by those subtle “final anonymous editors” of our Bavli from roughly 575 to roughly 610ce. Subtlety was the only coinage in this orchestration by the ‘final anonymous editors’. The over-arching power of Rabbinic Officialdom could be checked only by subtle and indirect insertions into “The Record”...