Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezerפרקי דרבי אליעזר
Eretz Yisrael (travels) · 800
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Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer
Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer
700 CE–900 CE · Geonim · Tiberias
The anonymous 8th-century redactor of Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, a narrative midrash retelling the biblical story in vivid expansive form. Attributed pseudepigraphically to the Tanna R. Eliezer ben Hyrcanus but composed several centuries later, drawing on midrashic and apocalyptic traditions.
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Stop 1 of 1700–900Compiled
TiberiasLand of Israel
We know they were here, but the specifics of what they did at this stop aren’t recorded yet in our corpus.
About Tiberias
Galilee center; home of Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk and his Hasidic disciples after aliyah.
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.