Completion of the Babylonian Talmud

Name: Completion of the Babylonian Talmud
Start: 0500
Location: Sura and Pumbedita, Mesopotamia

c. 500 · Sura and Pumbedita, Mesopotamia · Middle East · Culture

Judaism's central text after the Bible took shape in Iraq

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For centuries, generations of sages in the Jewish academies of Sura and Pumbedita, under Sasanian rule, debated and commented on the Mishnah. By tradition, Rav Ashi and Ravina completed the work around 500. The Babylonian Talmud runs to thousands of pages of debate on law, ritual and ethics, and remains the basis of Jewish religious study.

State: Sasanian Empire

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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)

Europe

476 Fall of the Western Roman Empire — 24 years earlier
c. 496 Baptism of Clovis — 4 years earlier

Americas

c. 500 Rise of Tiwanaku — same year

Alive at the time

Justinian I (aged 18)
Clovis I (aged 34)
Aryabhata (aged 24)
Theodora (aged 0)