%0 Journal Article
%T “And Gabriel Kept on Writing” (Megilla 16a). Literary Features of Traditions Involving Supernatural Entities in the Babylonian Talmud according to the Elyonim veTachtonim Project
%A Kosior, Wojciech
%J The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series
%V 2022
%R 10.4467/24506249PJ.22.009.16832
%N 16 (2/2022)
%P 47-69
%K Babylonian Talmud, Digital Humanities, literary studies, angelology, demonology
%@ 2450-2561
%D 2022
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/pjacns/article/and-gabriel-kept-on-writing-megilla-16a-literary-features-of-traditions-involving-supernatural-entities-in-the-babylonian-talmud-according-to-the-elyonim-vetachtonim-project
%X 
	In this paper, I explain the theoretical and pragmatic aspects of the annotation system of the literary features used in the Talmudic database developed within the Elyonim veTachtonim project. In the first section, I recapitulate the theses concerning the production of the Babylonian Talmud and operationalise the formal indicators (i.e., language and attribution) of its specific layers. In the second section, I review the scholarship on the Talmudic genres and propose a categorisation that adheres to the cross-cultural framework of the Elyonim veTachtonim project. In the final section, I offer an illustration: a qualitative scrutiny of a fragment from Berakhot 62a and a quantitative-qualitative analysis of the data gathered from the Talmudic inventory.