In the first part of this paper (Review of Rabbinic Literature 19:2, pp. 202–244) we followed the use of numbers from the Bible and Ancient Near Eastern literatures through the book of Ben-Sira and ultimately into Rabbinic literature. We showed that the Rabbis were familiar with the Biblical use of numbers as a rhetoric device and used numbers in similar ways. In this conclusion of our paper we will show how the Rabbis used numbers as an editing device in the Mishnah, Tosefta and Babylonian Talmud. This use of the rhetorical device in question is only rarely attested in the Hebrew Bible.

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在犹太文学中将数字用作编辑工具

在本文的第一部分（《犹太人文学综述》 19：2，第202–244页）中，我们遵循《圣经》和《近东古代文献》中通过本·塞拉一书使用的数字，并最终将其纳入犹太人文学。我们表明，拉比比人熟悉圣经中数字作为修辞手法的使用，并且以类似的方式使用数字。在本文的结论中，我们将展示拉比斯如何在密西拿，托塞夫塔和巴比伦塔木德中使用数字作为编辑工具。在希伯来语圣经中很少证明对这种修辞手段的使用。