Abaye
Sign in to saveAbaye (or Abbaye) () was an amora of the fourth generation of the Talmudic academies in Babylonia. He was born about the close of the third century and died in 337.
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- Person.name
- Abaye
- Person.image
- File:Tomb of Tannaim Abaye and Rava ap 002.jpg
- Person.caption
- Tomb of Abaye and Rava
- Person.birth_name
- Naḥmani
- Person.birth_date
- c. 280
- Person.birth_place
- Lower Mesopotamia
- Person.death_date
- 337
- Person.death_place
- Lower Mesopotamia
- Person.occupation
- Rabbi, Talmudist
- Person.known_for
- Talmudic scholar and amora of the fourth generation
- Person.notable_works
- Head of the Pumbedita Academy
- Person.burial_place
- Jamnith, Upper Galilee
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- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sasanian Empire
- Religion
- Judaism
- Field of work
- Torah
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- date of death
- 0339-01-01
- date of birth
- 0278-00-00
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Biography
- His name
- His childhood and teachers
- His friends
- As the Head of the Academy
- Bar Hedya and the Dreams of Abbaye and Rava
- Family
- Burial place
- Teachings
- Modern application
- Further reading
- See also
- References
Abaye (or Abbaye) () was an amora of the fourth generation of the Talmudic academies in Babylonia. He was born about the close of the third century and died in 337.
==Biography== Abbaye, according to Talmudic tradition, was the rosh yeshiva (academic head) of Pumbedita Academy until the day of his death. He was known as a modest and honest man, supporting himself through farming. He lived most of his life in poverty. Abbaye was born as the only son of Kilil. His father died before Abbaye was born, and his mother died during childbirth; he was adopted by his uncle, Rabbah bar Nahmani.
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