Nehardea

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Jewish community ancient city center of rabbinic scholarship

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.

Nehardea → alternativeName → Nehardea →
this entity surface form: Nehardea (Neharde’a)
Amoraim → centerOfActivity → Nehardea →
this entity surface form: Nehardea academy
Sura → togetherWith → Nehardea →
this entity surface form: Nehardea Academy