Samuel the Astronomer

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Samuel the Astronomer was a prominent Babylonian Amora and head of the academy at Nehardea, renowned both for his Talmudic scholarship and his expertise in astronomy and calendar calculation.

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instanceOf Babylonian Amora
Talmudic sage
astronomer
expert in calendar calculation
head of yeshiva
rabbi
activeIn Babylonia NERFINISHED
Nehardea NERFINISHED
alsoKnownAs Samuel bar Abba NERFINISHED
Samuel of Nehardea NERFINISHED
Shmuel NERFINISHED
associatedWith Babylonian Talmud NERFINISHED
academy of Nehardea NERFINISHED
authorityOn Jewish calendar NERFINISHED
astronomical aspects of halakha
collaboratedWith Rav in establishing Talmudic study in Babylonia NERFINISHED
contemporaryOf Rav NERFINISHED
contributedTo discussion of civil law in the Talmud
discussion of ritual law in the Talmud
culture Babylonian Jew
educatedAt yeshivot in Babylonia
era Amoraic period NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork Aggadah NERFINISHED
Halakha NERFINISHED
Talmudic law
astronomy
calendar calculation
generation first generation of Amoraim
influenced development of halakhic tradition in Babylonia
later Amoraim in Babylonia
jurisdiction Jewish community of Nehardea NERFINISHED
language Aramaic
Hebrew
legalExpertise civil law (dinei mamonot)
ritual law (issur ve-heter)
notableFor Talmudic scholarship
expertise in astronomy
expertise in fixing the Jewish calendar
leadership of the Nehardea academy
positionHeld head of the academy at Nehardea
region Sasanian Babylonia NERFINISHED
religion Judaism
specialization calculation of new moons
determination of Jewish festivals
intercalation of leap years
teacherOf students of the Nehardea academy
timePeriod 3rd century CE
tradition Babylonian rabbinic tradition NERFINISHED

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Shmuel of Nehardea alsoKnownAs Samuel the Astronomer