Sherira

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/14120

Head (gaon) of the Academy of Pumbeditha, Babylonia.

Names

Hebrew: שרירא = ShRYRʾ 1

Attributes

Male
Birth: c. 906
Death: c. 1006

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela1	before c.1170	c.1173	13th C	1907

Sources

1Sherira: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 69 [Hebrew with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Liran Yadgar, and Laurel Kenner, “Sherira” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/14120.

Additional credit information:

Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML and Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
Liran Yadgar: abstract; birth/death/floruit dates entry; and gender assignment, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
Laurel Kenner: Wikipedia matching

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