[Avodah] questions about krias hatefillah

[Eli Turkel via Avodah]

from wikipedia

The language of the Amidah most likely dates from the mishnaic
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishna> period, both before and after
the destruction
of the Temple <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_in_Jerusalem> (70 CE)
at which time it was considered unnecessary to prescribe its text and
content.[5] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amidah#cite_note-5> The Talmud
indicates that when Rabbi Gamaliel II
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamaliel_II> undertook to fix definitely the
public service and to regulate private devotion, he directed Samuel ha-Katan
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_ha-Katan> to write another paragraph
inveighing against informers
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage#Agents_in_espionage> and heretics
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresy_in_Judaism>, which was inserted as
the twelfth prayer in modern sequence, making the number of blessings
nineteen.[6] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amidah#cite_note-6> Other
sources, also in the Talmud, indicate, however, that this prayer was part
of the original 18;[7] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amidah#cite_note-7> and
that 19 prayers came about when the 15th prayer for the restoration of
Jerusalem and of the throne of David (coming of the Messiah) was split into
two.

>From numerous gemaras it is obvious that the exact details of many brachot
were not detailed
 for many generations. It is obvious as Micha points out that some form of
the amidah is
from second Temple times. The question is how rigid it was until R Gamaliel
and even later

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Eli Turkel
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