[annalex]

showed how far fetched these tales were

Yes, they are, but it does not discredit the Talmud as a history source for evidence of the customs of the time. Quoting myself at 112, "it would be right to point out that neither of the rabbis' opinions was without controversy. But if we were to use the passage to assert that, for example, some women were hairdressers in those days, we would be correct in our assertion, regardless of anything else that passage says."

[count-your-change]

The passage doesn’t say some women, it says Mary. The question is not whether there were virgins or a temple or a tabernacle but whether there were temple virgins at the door of the tabernacle.

It's called conflating, taking separate unrelated ideas and trying to mix them into a single fact.

Since the Scriptures offer no support for cloistered temple virgins it's not surprising that sources like the Talmud and visions and apocrypha would be brought in, unreliable as they are.