Yehuda ben Beteira
50 CE–135 CE · Tannaim · Nisibis
Rabbi Yehuda ben Beteira was a second-generation Tanna who lived during the late first and early second centuries CE. He was a prominent figure at the academy in Nisibis (in Mesopotamia), where he taught and established a center of Torah learning that became influential in the Jewish diaspora. He was known for his halakhic acumen and his ability to preserve and transmit traditions. Yehuda ben Beteira is remembered in the Talmudic tradition for his interpretations of Jewish law and his role in maintaining continuity of learning during a period of significant change in Jewish life following the destruction of the Second Temple.
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NisibisTalmudic-era settlement
What they did here
Established an academy that became a major center of Torah learning in the Diaspora during the second century.
About Nisibis
Nisibis (today Nusaybin in southeastern Turkey, on the Syrian border) was a city in northern Mesopotamia with an ancient and important Jewish community. In the tannaitic and early amoraic periods it was home to the famous academy of Rabbi Judah ben Bathyra, which drew students from the Land of Israel and was a refuge for Palestinian scholars during periods of persecution.
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Yehuda ben Beteira’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Jewish world
- Shmuel HaKatan· 30 CE–110 CE
- Yose HaKohen· 30 CE–100 CE
- Onkelos· 35 CE–120 CE
- Josephus· 37 CE–100 CE
- Yehoshua ben Chananya· 40 CE–131 CE
- Eliezer ben Hyrcanus (Eliezer HaGadol)· 40 CE–120 CE
- Eleazar ben Arach· 40 CE–110 CE
- Rabbi Akiva ben Yosef· 50 CE–135 CE
- Eleazar of Modi'im· 50 CE–135 CE
- Tarfon· 50 CE–130 CE
- Nachum Ish Gam Zu (Nachum 'Also-For-Good')· 50 CE–130 CE
- Rabban Gamliel II of Yavneh· 50 CE–117 CE
- Eleazar ben Azaryah· 60 CE–130 CE
- Chananyah ben Akashya· 60 CE–130 CE
- Yishmael ben Elisha· 60 CE–135 CE
- Chanina ben Teradion· 60 CE–135 CE
- Yochanan ben Nuri· 60 CE–140 CE
- Yose HaGalili· 60 CE–140 CE
- Elisha ben Avuya (Acher)· 70 CE–135 CE
- Rabbi Yossi ben Kisma· 70 CE–135 CE
- Eleazar ben Chisma· 70 CE–140 CE
- Rabbi Yehudah ben Bava· 75 CE–135 CE
- Shimon ben Azzai· 90 CE–135 CE
- Shimon ben Zoma· 90 CE–135 CE
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