- male, deceased (1038)
- Hai Gaon (969-1038) was one of the last "geonim" (rabbinic authorities of the early Middle Ages). He was the head of the academy at Pumbedita,...
- male, deceased (339)
- Abaye was a Rabbi of the Jewish Talmud who lived in Babylonia, known as an amora; born about the close of the third century; died 339 (see Talmudic...
- male, deceased (356)
- Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak (d. 356), disciple of Abaye and Rava was dean of the Yeshiva at Pumbedita. In his youth, Rav Nachman studied together with...
- male
- Raba or Raba Ben Joseph Ben Hama(c. 280-352) was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, known as an amora. His top student was the famous...
- male
- Shemariah ben Elhanan was head of the yeshibah of Cairo, Egypt, about the end of the 10th century. Abraham ibn Daud ("Sefer ha-Ḳabbalah," in A. Ne...
- male, deceased (352)
- Raba Ben Joseph Ben Hama (c. 280-352) was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, known as an amora. He is closely associated in his studies...
- male, deceased (427)
- Rav Ashi ("Rabbi Ashi") (352-427) was a celebrated Jewish religious scholar, a Babylonian amora, who reestablished the academy at Sura and was...
- male
- Petachiah of Ratisbon, also known as Petachiah ben Yakov, Moses Petachiah, and Petachiah of Regensburg, was a Bohemian rabbi of the late twelfth...
- male
- Rava (רבא) was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, known as an amora, born in 270, and one of the most often-cited Rabbis in the Talmud. He...
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- Hezekiah Gaon was gaon of the Talmudic academy at Pumbedita from 1038-40. Hezekiah was a member of the exilarchal family. He was elected to the...
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