PUMBEDITA

'Pumbedita' (sometimes 'Pumbeditha', 'Pumbeditha', 'Pumpedita', or 'Pumbedisa') was the name of a city in ancient Babylonia that was a major center of Talmud scholarship that, together with the city of Sura, gave rise to the Babylonian Talmud. The academy there was founded by Judah ben Ezekiel in the late third century.
The Babylonian Talmud mentions the logical fallacies and arcane methodology of the academy of Pumpedita. "Are you from Pumbedita, where they make an elephant pass through the eye of a needle?" (Baba Metzia, 38b)
The modern day city of Fallujah stands in its place.

Contents

See also

See also

★ Talmudic Academies in Babylonia