Eleazar ben Pedat
3rd-century Jewish scholar from Babylon / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Eleazar ben Shammua.
For other early Jewish rabbis with the same name, see Rabbi Eleazar (disambiguation).
Eleazar ben Pedat (Hebrew: רבי אלעזר בן פדת) was a second and third-generation amora or Talmudist from Babylon who lived in Syria Palaestina during the 3rd century.[1][2][3]
He became a scholar at the Talmudic academy at Tiberias, where he was held in great esteem and served as head master, becoming known as "master [i.e., legal authority] of the land of Israel".[4]