Talmudic Academies in Palestine

by Cyrus Adler

Overview

The Talmudic Academies in Palestine were yeshivot that served as centers for Jewish scholarship and the development of Jewish law in the Levant between the destruction of the Second Temple in c.70CE and the deposition of Raban Gamliel VI in c.425CE. The acadamies a great and lasting impact on the development of world Jewry, including the creation of the Palestinian Talmud. Land of Israel is a religious name for the region which during the Talmudic period was officially known as Syria Palaestina (under the Romans) and Palaestina Prima / Palaestina Secunda (under the Byzantines).

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016282343
Publisher:	Franklin Religious Publishing
Publication date:	02/12/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	73 KB

About the Author

Adler was born in Van Buren, Arkansas, a graduate of University of Pennsylvania in 1883 and gained a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1887, where he taught Semitic languages from 1884 to 1893. He was employed by the Smithsonian Institution for a number of years, with a focus on archaeology and Semitics, serving as the Librarian from 1892-1905. He was a founder of the Jewish Welfare Board, and an editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia, and part of the committee that translated the Jewish Publication Society version of the Hebrew Bible published in 1917. At the end of World War I, he participated in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. His many scholarly writings include articles on comparative religion, Assyriology, and Semitic philology.