Chama from Nehardea

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R. Chama from Nehardea , also Hama in Nehardea , († 377 ) was an important Babylonian Amorae of the 5th generation and lived and worked in the fourth century AD.

He was a contemporary of Papa and a student of Chisida . After Nachmans b. Isaac he became head of the school of scholars in Pumbedita .

He died in 377.

literature

  • Samuel Atlas, Article Hama from Nehardea , in: Jüdisches Lexikon , Berlin 1927, Vol. II
  • Strack / Stemberger , Introduction in Talmud and Midrash , 7th edition, Munich 1982
personal data
SURNAME Chama from Nehardea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hama in Nehardea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cupid
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century or 4th century
DATE OF DEATH 377