Pumbedita academy

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Pumbedita academy was one of the great Babylonian Talmudic academies, renowned as a major center of Jewish scholarship and legal interpretation in late antiquity and the early medieval period.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Talmudic academy
rabbinical academy
yeshiva
country Iraq
dissolved 11th century
c. 1038 CE
era early Middle Ages
late antiquity
fieldOfWork Halakha
Jewish law
Talmudic studies
rabbinic literature
foundedBy Judah bar Ezekiel
governingBody Geonim
hasRival Sura academy
hasRole center of Jewish legal interpretation
major center of Jewish scholarship
headOfGovernment gaon
inception 3rd century
c. 3rd century CE
influenced diaspora Jewish communities
medieval Jewish law
influencedBy earlier Amoraic academies in Babylonia
languageOfWork Aramaic
Hebrew
locatedIn Mesopotamia
surface form: Babylonia

Pumbedita academy self-linksurface differs
surface form: Pumbedita

Sasanian Empire
early Islamic Iraq
mainWork Talmud Bavli
surface form: Babylonian Talmud
notablePerson Hai Gaon
Rav Kohen Tzedek
Rav Natronai Gaon
Rav Paltoi Gaon
Rav Yehudai Gaon
Sherira Gaon
notableStudent Abaye
Rav Ashi
Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak
Rav Papa
Rav Yosef
Rava
Ravina
partOf Pumbedita academy self-linksurface differs
surface form: Babylonian Talmudic academies

Yeshivat Sura
surface form: yeshivot of Babylonia
religion Judaism
significantEvent Geonic period leadership of Babylonian Jewry
competition and cooperation with Sura academy
development of Babylonian Talmudic tradition
tradition Babylonian rabbinic tradition

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Amoraim centerOfActivity Pumbedita academy
Geonim mainLocation Pumbedita academy
Geonim partOf Pumbedita academy
this entity surface form: Babylonian Talmudic academies
Nehardea hasAcademicInstitution Pumbedita academy
this entity surface form: yeshiva of Nehardea
Nehardea contemporaryWith Pumbedita academy
this entity surface form: Pumbedita
Baghdad Geonim basedIn Pumbedita academy
this entity surface form: Talmudic academies of Babylonia
Sura togetherWith Pumbedita academy
this entity surface form: Pumbedita Academy
Geonic period hasKeyInstitution Pumbedita academy
this entity surface form: Pumbedita yeshiva
Geonic period location Pumbedita academy
this entity surface form: Pumbedita
Geonic responsa centeredIn Pumbedita academy
Sura academy togetherWith Pumbedita academy
subject surface form: Sura Academy
this entity surface form: Pumbedita Academy
Pumbedita academy locatedIn Pumbedita academy self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Pumbedita
Pumbedita academy partOf Pumbedita academy self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Babylonian Talmudic academies
Abaye residence Pumbedita academy
this entity surface form: Pumbedita
Hai Gaon placeOfActivity Pumbedita academy
this entity surface form: Pumbedita
Hai Gaon school Pumbedita academy
Hai Gaon burialPlace Pumbedita academy
this entity surface form: Pumbedita (traditional attribution)
Savoraim influenced Pumbedita academy
this entity surface form: Geonic academies
Savoraim workLocation Pumbedita academy
Geonic liturgy centerOfDevelopment Pumbedita academy
Rav Yehuda placeOfActivity Pumbedita academy
this entity surface form: Pumbedita
Rav Sheshet associatedWith Pumbedita academy
Kallah (semiannual assembly) heldAt Pumbedita academy
Yeshivat Sura notableCounterpart Pumbedita academy
this entity surface form: Yeshivat Pumbedita
Sherira Gaon workLocation Pumbedita academy
this entity surface form: Pumbedita
Sherira Gaon placeOfActivity Pumbedita academy
this entity surface form: Pumbedita yeshiva
Resh Galuta associatedInstitution Pumbedita academy
this entity surface form: Academy of Pumbedita
House of the Exilarchs associatedWith Pumbedita academy
Medieval Babylonian Jewry hasCenter Pumbedita academy
Medieval Babylonian Jewry hadInstitution Pumbedita academy
this entity surface form: yeshiva of Pumbedita