Location:
Iraq
Coordinates:
31.8833, 44.4472
Events at Sura (11)
219
ID: 4853
Rav establishes Sura academy in Babylon - Returns from Palestine, creates major center of Jewish learning
ID: 4853
300
ID: 4873
Babylonian academies on Jesus - Talmud includes cryptic references to 'Yeshu', competing narrative to Gospels
ID: 4873
400
ID: 4875
Exilarch vs. Academies tension - Hereditary political leadership conflicts with rabbinic academic authority
ID: 4875
425
ID: 4859
Rav Ashi begins organizing Babylonian Talmud - 60-year project at Sura academy, massive compilation
ID: 4859
475
ID: 4860
Ravina II continues Talmud compilation - Works with Rav Ashi's successors, nearing completion
ID: 4860
500
ID: 4861
Babylonian Talmud essentially complete - Savoraim begin minor additions and explanations
ID: 4861
550
ID: 4862
Savoraim period ends - Final anonymous additions to Talmud, text reaches current form
ID: 4862
589
ID: 4863
Geonic period begins - Heads of Babylonian academies become authorities for worldwide Jewry
ID: 4863
650
ID: 4864
Islam conquers Babylon - Jewish academies continue under Muslim rule, new legal questions arise
ID: 4864
760
ID: 4865
Anan ben David founds Karaism - Rejects Talmud, accepts only Hebrew Bible, major schism
ID: 4865
928
ID: 4866
Saadia Gaon leads Sura - Fights Karaites, translates Bible to Arabic, writes philosophy
ID: 4866