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Submitted by IamJoseph (Australia), May 6, 2010 at 21:54

the jews used Hebrew letters to write texts in Arabic (the so called Judeo Arabic) how come you did not know that?

# Sure I know this. It relates to when the Jews were in Mesopotamia since the Babylon exile, and the Hebrew was forbidden, as with the Roman exile. The Jews who lived in Arabic lands spoke fluent Arabic and even wrote many Hebrew books transcribed in Arabic - but these are all post-400 CE. They also wrote in Greek. This does not mean there was Arabic writings pre-400 CE. Here is proof from your own Wiki regarding when the Babylon Talmud was written down - namely in 500 CE, well after the Arabic emerged:

Bavli and Yerushalmi

The process of "Gemara" proceeded in the two major centers of Jewish scholarship, the Land of Israel and Babylonia. Correspondingly, two bodies of analysis developed, and two works of Talmud were created. The older compilation is called the Jerusalem Talmud or the Talmud Yerushalmi. It was compiled sometime during the fourth century in Israel. The Babylonian Talmud was compiled about the year 500 C.E., although it continued to be edited later. The word "Talmud", when used without qualification, usually refers to the Babylonian Talmud. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud].

# That the Babylon Talmud is in Arabic is post 400 CE. It only roves there was no Arabic before this date.

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