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.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Nehardea canonical 4
Nehardea academy 3
Nehardea Academy 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish community
ancient city
center of rabbinic scholarship
alternativeName Nehardea (Neharde’a)
linked to: Nehardea
contemporaryWith Pumbedita
linked to: Pumbedita academy

Sura
country Iraq (modern)
linked to: Iraq
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 rabbinic court (beit din)
linked to: Beit din

yeshiva of Nehardea
linked to: Pumbedita academy
hasNotableRabbi Rav (Abba Arikha)
linked to: Abba Arika (Rav)

Rav Huna
Rav Nachman bar Yaakov
Rav Sheshet
Rav Yehuda
Samuel of Nehardea
linked to: Shmuel 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 Babylonia
linked to: Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia
Parthian Empire
locatedOn Euphrates River
linked to: Euphrates
mentionedIn Babylonian Talmud
linked to: 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

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Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Amoraim centerOfActivity Nehardea academy
linked to: Nehardea
Nehardea alternativeName Nehardea (Neharde’a)
linked to: Nehardea
Sura togetherWith Nehardea Academy
linked to: Nehardea
Shmuel of Nehardea associatedWith Nehardea academy
linked to: Nehardea
Rav associatedWith Nehardea
Sura Academy togetherWith Nehardea Academy
subject linked to: Sura academy
linked to: Nehardea
Rav Yehuda placeOfActivity Nehardea
Medieval Babylonian Jewry hasCenter Nehardea academy
linked to: Nehardea