There is great religious intolerance upon the…

There is great religious intolerance upon the conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity.

The center of Judaism has already shifted from Palestine, a Roman province, to Persian-controlled Babylonia, where the Jewish focus on study leads to the compilation of the Talmud (”tradition”), an immense commentary on the Torah that thoroughly analyzes the application of Jewish law to the day-to-day life of the Jewish community.