"Rabbinic literature, in its broadest sense, can mean the entire spectrum of rabbinic writings throughout Jewish history. But the term often refers specifically to literature from the Talmudic era, as opposed to medieval and modern rabbinic writing, and thus corresponds with the Hebrew term Sifrut Hazal (\u05E1\u05E4\u05E8\u05D5\u05EA \u05D7\u05D6\"\u05DC; \"Literature [of our] sages [of] blessed memory,\" where Hazal normally refers only to the sages of the Talmudic era). This more specific sense of \"Rabbinic literature\"\u2014referring to the Talmudim, Midrash, and related writings, but hardly ever to later texts\u2014is how the term is generally intended when used in contemporary academic writing. On the other hand, the terms meforshim and parshanim (commentaries/commentators) almost always refer to later, post-Talmudic writers of Rabbinic glosses on Biblical and Talmudic texts. This article discusses rabbinic literature in both senses. It begins with the classic rabbinic literature of the Talmudic era (Sifrut Hazal), and then adds a broad survey of rabbinic writing from later periods."@en . . . . . "Rabbinic literature, in its broadest sense, can mean the entire spectrum of rabbinic writings throughout Jewish history. But the term often refers specifically to literature from the Talmudic era, as opposed to medieval and modern rabbinic writing, and thus corresponds with the Hebrew term Sifrut Hazal (\u05E1\u05E4\u05E8\u05D5\u05EA \u05D7\u05D6\"\u05DC; \"Literature [of our] sages [of] blessed memory,\" where Hazal normally refers only to the sages of the Talmudic era). This more specific sense of \"Rabbinic literature\"\u2014referring to the Talmudim, Midrash, and related writings, but hardly ever to later texts\u2014is how the term is generally intended when used in contemporary academic writing. On the other hand, the terms meforshim and parshanim (commentaries/commentators) almost always refer to later, post-Talmudic writers of Rabbinic "@en . . . . "Rabbinic literature"@en . . .