ענפי הנוסח של פרק יום הכיפורים בבבלי: היווצרותם, טיבם וייצוגם בעדים

In my previous article on the Genizah copies of the eighth chapter of Yoma,I discussed the textual variants between them and I concluded there are two branches. In this article I surveyed all the variants in the chapter to create a more accurate stemma.The variants belong to different categories. Many variants are not are sult of a mistake and there is not a change in the content, rather a change in the wording or terms. In this category, branch B represents a more developed text. In the content category there are sub-categories. One subcategory represents variants due to different traditions. The second subcategory, seen in Branch B, is additional steps to the sugya. The final subcategory is scribal edits. In this research I concluded that Branch Age nerally represents the original text while Branch B represents the edited text. Branch A has a higher quality than Branch B.