Saboreans
As Saboraim (. Of Hebrew sabar = think, conclude; Aramaic Saworaë, "explainer") refers to the Jewish scholars in the succession of Amora , the precursors of Geonim . According to a largely unanimous view today, they worked in the period from approx. 500-590 (different from Ephrati, see below)
The Saboreans are not, as has long been suspected, the ones who (only) carried out stylistic fine-tuning on the Babylonian Talmud , which had already been completed in literary terms, but real editors who, through special additions, especially in the introductory sentences of the treatises and chapters, decisively shaped the final version.
Many questions, however, in connection with their living conditions and the specific part of their work in the great overall works of the Talmud that has come down to us are (and probably will remain forever) unresolved.
It is also discussed whether a (smaller or larger) part of the anonymous statements are of Saborean origin.
Saboraeans known by name
- Rab Acha, son of (Rabba bar) Abbuha (d. 510)
- Rab Achai bar Rab Huna (from Be Chatim), d. 506
- Rab Aina in Sura
- Rabba Josef (variant: Jose), head of school in Pumbedita (d. 520)
- Mar Zutra
- Rabbai from Rob in Pumbedita (possibly also one of the first Geonim)
- Rabina von Amutsja (variant: Amusa), d. 507
- Rab Richumai (variant: Nichumai), d. 506
- Sama bar Jehuda (died 504)
- Rab Samuel bar R. Abbahu, in Pumbedita (d. 506)
- Rab Simona, in Pumbedita (possibly also one of the first Geonim), died around 540 (?)
- Rab Tachna (variant: Tachina)
literature
- BM Lewin, Rabbanan Saborae we-Talmudam , Jerusalem 1937
- A. Weiss, The Literary Activities of the Saboraim , Jerusalem 1953 (Hebrew)
- JE Ephrati, The Sevoraic Period and its Literature in Babylonia and in Eretz Israel (500-689) , Petach Tikva 1973
- JS Spiegel, Later (saboraic) additions in the Babylonian Talmud , Tel Aviv 1975 (Hebrew)