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    The Talmudic academies in Babylonia, also known as the Geonic academies, were the center for Jewish scholarship and the development of Halakha from roughly...
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  • Abba Arikha (redirect from Rav (Talmud))
    of the Talmud. With him began the long period of ascendancy of the prestigious Talmudic academies in Babylonia around the year 220. In the Talmud, he is...
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  • Talmudic Academy may refer to: a yeshiva Talmudic Academies in Babylonia Talmudic Academies in Syria Palaestina This disambiguation page lists articles...
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  • called Babylonia by Talmudic scholars between c. 589-1038 CE; see Talmudic Academies in Babylonia Babylonia (gastropod), a genus of sea snails "Babylónia",...
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  • Nehardea (category Babylonia)
    des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums, 74) Talmudic academies in Babylonia Talmudic academies in Syria Palaestina The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela...
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    political centre of Jewish Babylonia after Nehardea Talmudic Academies in Syria Palaestina (in the Land of Israel) The list names in accordance with Hebrew...
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    Abaye (category Rabbis of Academy of Pumbedita)
    the Talmudic academies in Babylonia. He was born about the close of the third century and died in 337. Abaye was the head of the Pumbedita Academy until...
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  • The Talmudic academies in Syria Palaestina were yeshivot that served as centers for Jewish scholarship and the development of Jewish law in Syria Palaestina...
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  • Sura (city) (redirect from Academy at Sura)
    History of the Jews in Iraq Talmudic Academies in Babylonia Peroz-Shapur, now Anbar (town), a town adjacent or identical to Nehardea; academy of Pumbedita was...
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    Exilarch (category Jews and Judaism in the Abbasid Caliphate)
    Jewish communities, supervising and providing financing for the Talmudic academies in Babylonia, and the charitable re-distribution and financial assistance...
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  • prison and reinstalled at the head of the academy. Source: History of the Jews in Iraq Talmudic Academies in Babylonia Firuz Shapur, modern-day Anbar, a town...
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    important of the Jewish centres in Mesopotamia, a region called "Babylonia" in Jewish sources (see Talmudic academies in Babylonia) and later known as Iraq,...
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    Yeshiva (redirect from Rabbinical academy)
    Although the yeshiva as an institution is in some ways a continuation of the Talmudic Academies in Babylonia, large scale educational institutions of this...
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  • Babylonian Aramaic: תחומא, romanized: Tḥūmā) was one of the major Talmudic academies in Babylonia (Mesopotamia), active intermittently from the early Amoraic...
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  • Ben Meïr and the Talmudic Academies in Babylonia regarding the Hebrew calendar. Sacha Stern (following Shraga Abramson) argues that in fact the ben Meir...
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  • Yeshiva of Eretz Israel (category Jews in the Land of Israel)
    century, or even earlier, until its demise in the 11th century. It competed with the talmudic academies in Babylonia (Lower Mesopotamia) to support the growing...
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    Rav Ashi (category Rabbis of Academy of Sura)
    Mahuza) died, and he was the first important teacher in the Talmudic Academies in Babylonia after Rava's death. Simai, Ashi's father, was a rich and learned...
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    Targum Jonathan (category Jewish texts in Aramaic)
    it gained general recognition in Lower Mesopotamia in the third century, and from the Talmudic academies in Babylonia it was carried throughout the Diaspora...
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  • in order of succession to the exalted office. Eventually, Josiah was elected exilarch by the geonim or leaders of the Talmudic academies in Babylonia...
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  • Fallujah) Sura Academy, in Sura (city) - the political center of Jewish Babylonia after Nehardea Talmudic Academies in Syria Palaestina (in the Land of Israel)...
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  • vizier, supporting Talmudic schools in Iberia and even declaring separation from the geonim of the Talmudic academies in Babylonia, the latter was humiliated...
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    hakham existed in Talmudic academies in Babylonia (Lower Mesopotamia). where the relation of the exilarch to the heads of the academy was entirely different...
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    Jewish history (category Religion in classical antiquity)
    Babylonian Talmud in the languages used by the Jews of ancient Babylonia: Hebrew and Aramaic. The Jews established Talmudic Academies in Babylonia, also known...
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  • in Babylonia. Talmudic academies in Babylonia A Geonic Commentary on a passage taken from the Babylonian Talmud (Kiddushin 72a-b) and discovered in the...
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  • Gaon) were the presidents of the two great Babylonian Talmudic Academies of Sura and Pumbedita, in the Abbasid Caliphate. They were generally accepted as...
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  • sages of the Mishnah and Talmud who often headed academies with hundreds of students. In the Talmudic academies in Babylonia, the rosh yeshiva was referred...
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    became home to many important Talmudic yeshivas such as the Nehardea, Pumbedita and Sura Academies, and the Babylonian Talmud was compiled there. The Mongol...
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    world was in the Middle East, primarily in the Talmudic Academies in Babylonia and Syria Palaestina. Jews in these regions used Seleucid Era dating (also...
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    Hasdai ibn Shaprut (category 10th-century rabbis in al-Andalus)
    Caliph in Córdoba as well as his benevolent attitude towards the Christians of Spain. Hasdai sent rich presents to the talmudic academies in Babylonia and...
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    period, or the Talmudic period, denotes a transformative era in Jewish history, spanning from the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE to the Muslim...
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