TOSAFOT [FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS]. Research conducted during the early twenty-first century focuses on identifying and evaluating more precisely the distinctions between northern French and German Tosafists, integrating newly discovered collections of Tosafot texts and bringing to the fore Tosafists whose writings and contributions have not been fully assessed, reconsidering the extent of Christian intellectual influences on Tosafist methods, and examining the non-Talmudic disciplines with which the Tosafists were significantly engaged.

Differences Between France and Germany

Tosafot texts produced in northern France failed to cite leading German scholars who were active circa 1200 (with barely an exception), including those who authored prominent books such as Judah b. Qalonymus of Spires (d. 1199; Sefer Yihusei Tanna'im va-Amora'im), Eliezer b. Joel ha-Levi (1160 to 1165–c. 1235; Sefer Rabiah), Barukh of Mainz (1150–1221; the no longer extant Sefer ha-Hokhmah), Eleazar of Worms (1176–1238; Sefer Roqeah), and Simhah of Speyer (c. 1230; the partially extant Seder Olam...