Nehardea
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Nehardea was an important early Babylonian Jewish city renowned as a major center of rabbinic scholarship and the study of Jewish law.
Observed surface forms (3)
| Surface form | As subject | As object |
|---|---|---|
| Nehardea (Neharde’a) | 0 | 1 |
| Nehardea Academy | 0 | 1 |
| Nehardea academy | 0 | 1 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jewish community
→
ancient city → center of rabbinic scholarship → |
| alternativeName |
Nehardea
→
surface form:
Nehardea (Neharde’a)
|
| contemporaryWith |
Pumbedita academy
→
surface form:
Pumbedita
Sura → |
| country |
Iraq
→
surface form:
Iraq (modern)
|
| demographic | predominantly Jewish population in rabbinic period → |
| destroyedBy | Papa ben Neser (Papa bar Neser) → |
| destroyedInCentury | 3rd century CE → |
| flourishedInCentury |
1st century CE
→
2nd century CE → 3rd century CE → |
| governedBy | exilarchate (Resh Galuta) → |
| hadInstitution |
central synagogue
→
treasury for Temple funds → |
| hasAcademicInstitution |
Beit din
→
surface form:
rabbinic court (beit din)
Pumbedita academy →
surface form:
yeshiva of Nehardea
|
| hasNotableRabbi |
Abba Arika (Rav)
→
surface form:
Rav (Abba Arikha)
Rav Huna → Rav Nachman bar Yaakov → Rav Sheshet → Rav Yehuda → Shmuel of Nehardea →
surface form:
Samuel of Nehardea
|
| heritageStatus | important site of Jewish diaspora history → |
| knownFor |
early Babylonian Talmudic scholarship
→
large Jewish population → rabbinic academies → seat of the exilarch → study of Jewish law → |
| language |
Aramaic
→
Hebrew (liturgical) → |
| locatedIn |
Mesopotamia
→
surface form:
Babylonia
Mesopotamia → Parthian Empire → |
| locatedOn |
Euphrates
→
surface form:
Euphrates River
|
| mentionedIn |
Talmud
→
surface form:
Babylonian Talmud
Tosefta → later rabbinic literature → |
| partOf | network of Babylonian Jewish centers → |
| primaryEconomicActivity |
agriculture
→
trade → |
| religion | Judaism → |
| roleInJudaism |
one of the earliest Babylonian yeshivot
→
precursor to later Babylonian academies → |
| timePeriod |
Amoraic period
→
Tannaitic period → |
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Nehardea (Neharde’a)
this entity surface form:
Nehardea academy
this entity surface form:
Nehardea Academy