Schela (Amorae)

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Schela ( Rabbi Schela or Rab Schela ) was a Jewish scholar of antiquity, is counted among the Babylonian Amorae of the 1st generation and lived and worked in the second and third centuries AD.

He was already a respected teacher in Nehardea and head of the school of scholars there named after him before Abba Areka and R. Samuel returned to Babylonia from Palestine .

Schela's students are quoted in the Talmud as debe R. Schela ("from the school of R. Schelas"). Almost nothing is handed down about himself in the Mishnah .

literature

  • Georg Herlitz: Article SCHELA, Rabbi , in: Jüdisches Lexikon , Berlin 1927, Volume IV / 2
  • Günter Stemberger : Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash . 8th edition. Beck, Munich 1992
personal data
SURNAME Schela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish scribe
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century or 3rd century
DATE OF DEATH 3rd century or 4th century