Rabba bar bar Chana
Rabba bar bar Chana (also: Rabbah bar bar Chana , in the Pal. Talmud : Abba bar bar Chana ; the father's name was Abba bar Chana , therefore bar twice ) was a Jewish scholar of antiquity. He is counted among the Babylonian Amorae of the third generation and lived and worked in the third, possibly even in the fourth century AD.
He came from Babylonia , but lived for some time in Palestine , where he was a disciple of Rabbi Jochanan , whose halachoth and haggadot he handed down.
He later lived again in Pumbedita and in Sura , where he tried to introduce the Ten Commandments into daily prayer, but Chisda prevented him from doing so.
Eventually he fled back to Palestine from the Sassanids .
He was best known for his fantastic travel stories (e.g. BB 73 a ff.), Which is why, according to his own statements, he had to let scholars scold him as a donkey and a fool .
literature
- Bacher : The Agada of the Babylonian Amorae . 1878
- Aaron Hyman : Toldoth Tannaim we-Amoraim. London 1910
- Johann Krengel: Article RABBA bar bar CHANA. In: Jewish Lexicon . Berlin 1927, Volume IV / 1
- Günter Stemberger : Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash . 8th edition, Beck, Munich 1992
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rabba bar bar Chana |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rabbah bar bar chana; Abba bar bar Chana |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Jewish scribe |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century or 3rd century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd century or 4th century |