About: Dr. Aaron Amit of the Department of Talmud at Bar Ilan University is the author of a volume of critical commentary on the Talmud (Talmud Ha-Igud, BT Pesahim, Chapter IV, Jerusalem, 2009) and numerous scholarly articles dealing with the influence of contemporary Greco-Roman culture and language on rabbinic literature, the textual transmission of the Talmud Bavli and the history of halakhah.