Tanchuma bar Abba
R. Tanchuma bar Abba (also Tanchum bar Abba , more precisely: Berabbi Abba ) was a Palestinian Amora of the fifth generation and lived and worked in the fourth century AD.
He was a student of R. Huna b. Abin and systematically collected the Aggada .
He often discussed questions of religion with non-Jews and met them in a spirit of tolerance.
His midrash collections , which no longer exist , were often regarded as the basis of PRK (Pesiqta de Rab Kahana), PesR (Pesiqta Rabbati) and the Tanchuma-Jelamdenu-Midrashim.
PesR contains 80 proömien in which Tanchuma is named as the author.
The series of the more important Palestinian aggadists ends with Tanchuma bar Abba.
literature
- Zacharias Frankel : Hodegetica , Leipzig 1859
- Buber : Midrash Tanchuma , Wilna 1885
- Bacher : The Agada of the Palestinian [sic] Amorae , 3 volumes, 1892–1899
- Johann Krengel: Article TANCHUMA bar ABBA , in: Jüdisches Lexikon , Berlin 1927, Volume IV / 2
- Strack / Stemberger : Introduction in Talmud and Midrash , 7th edition, Munich 1982
- Wilhelm Bacher , Jacob Zallel Lauterbach : Tanhuma b. Degradation In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tanchuma bar Abba |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tanchum bar abba; Berabbi Abba |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Jewish scholar (Amorae) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th century or 5th century |