Chama bar Chanina

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R. Chama bar Chanina ( Chama bar Chanina bar Chama ; also: Hama ; also: Chama ben Chanina etc.) was a Jewish scholar of antiquity, is counted among the Palestinian Cupids of the 2nd generation and lived and worked in the third century AD.

He was the son of Chanina b. Chama in Sepphoris and ran a teaching house there.

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