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
Tiberias, on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel, was founded around 20 CE by Herod Antipas and named for the emperor Tiberius. After the Sanhedrin settled there around 220 it became a leading centre of Jewish learning: by tradition beginning with Rabbi Yochanan bar Nappacha, the Jerusalem Talmud took shape there (scholars date its completion to about 400), and the Masoretes of Tiberias later devised the Tiberian vocalisation of Hebrew. After the Muslim conquest around 636 it was the capital of the district of Jund al-Urdunn, and the hadith scholar al-Tabarani was born there in 873. Maimonides was buried in Tiberias, and in 1783 the Hasidic leader Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk moved there from Safed with his followers.
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.