attainments in literature and science, as to far surpass all the philosophers of her own time. Having succeeded to the school of Plato and Plotinus, she explained the principles of philosophy to her auditors, many of whom came from a distance to receive her instructions. On account of the self–possession and ease of manner, which she had acquired in consequence of the cultivation of her mind, she not infrequently appeared in public in presence of the magistrates. Neither did she feel abashed in going to an assembly of men. For all men on account of her extraordinary dignity and virtue admired her, the more.”

Born around 360 CE into an academic family, she leaves a corpus of commentaries as well as her own academic works of note, including “The Astronomical Canon.” Events surrounding her murder have achieved notoriety, and have apparently been a focus of historians for centuries (see exhibit “The murder of Hypatia”: 3 chronicles).

c. 425 CE: ROMAN INJUNCTION v. NASSI

Roman abolition of the Office of the Patriarch (nassi) in Palestine, and suppression of formal scholarly/rabbinic ordination.

c. 425 CE: JERUSALEM TALMUD CLOSED

The “closing” of the Jerusalem Talmud (in Tiberias), primarily as a consequence of the suppression of the Patriarchate (425 CE) just–noted above, by Theodossius II.

[The text of Talmud Yerushalmi is mostly a discussion of the orders (sections) of zer’im, mo’ed, nashim, and nezikin of the Mishnah.]