The Babylonian Talmud
The Babylonian Talmud is later and more voluminous than the Palestinian
Talmud, and is a higher authority for the Jews. In the first cedher only Berakhoth
has a Gemara; Sheqalim in the 2nd cedher has in the manuscripts and in the
editions the Palestinian Gemara; Middoth and Qinnim in the 5th cedher have no
Babylonian Gemara. The greatest Jewish academies in Babylonia were in Nehardea, Cura,
Pumbeditha and Mahuza.