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Pumbedita
Pumbedita (sometimes Pumbeditha, Pumpedita, or Pumbedisa; Pūmbəḏīṯāʾ, "The Mouth of the River," ) was an ancient city located near the modern-day city of Fallujah, Iraq. It is known for having hosted the Pumbedita Academy.
History
The city of Pumbedita was said to have possessed a Jewish population since the days of Second Temple of Jerusalem. The city had a large Jewish population and was famed for its Pumbedita Academy, whose scholarship, 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 academy was established after the destruction of the academy of Nehardea. Nehardea, being the capital city, was destroyed during the Persian–Palmyrian war. The twelfth-century travel account of Benjamin of Tudela gives this description: Guy Le Strange in his geography of Mesopotamia in the Abbasid era constructed from Ibn Serapion, (ca. 900), cited the possible location for Pumbedita:
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