I believe that this is the first translation of any complete tractate of the Talmud into English, predating the Soncino translation by over forty years. The Rev. Annesley William Streane, D.D., Fellow of Corpus, Cambridge, was born in Dublin in 1845.  He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and in 1871 he entered Emmanuel College, … Continue reading A Translation of the Treatise Chagigah from the Babylonian Talmud, A. W. Streane, Cambridge, 1891. →