TanhumabarAbba (Hebrew: תנחומא בר אבא) was a Jewish amora of the 5th generation, one of the foremost aggadists of his time. He was a pupil of Ḥuna bar...
Torah, and it is known in several different versions or collections. TanhumabarAbba is not the author of the text but instead is a figure to whom traditions...
TanhumabarAbba relates another anecdote concerning a pious tailor at Rome, who bought the most expensive fish; this anecdote may refer to Abbabar Zemina...
of God (בְּצֵל אֶל, betzel El) and had thus come to know this. The TanhumabarAbba taught in the name of Rav Huna that even the things that Bezalel did...
Tosefta. His full name is Hiyya barAbba, also the name of the 3rd generation Amora of the Land of Israel, Hiyya barAbba. He was a student of Judah haNasi...
Midrash Abba Gorion (AbGur) is a late midrash to the Book of Esther, and may be considered one of the smaller midrashim. The name derives from that of...
Shimon rather than Eleazar. In Kohelet Rabbah, the given name of Bar Kapparah is Abba. Bar Kappara was a pupil of Judah ha-Nasi. His teachers seem to also...
members, as sources suggest. Ezra uttered the Tetragrammaton. Elsewhere, Abbabar Kahana states that "Two generations used the Tetragrammaton: the men of...
Elijah, Messiah ben David, Righteous Priest and Messiah ben Joseph.: 86 Tanhuma: the War Messiah is again a descendant of Joseph.: 85 Bet ha-midrash is...
as Levi bar Laḥma (Hama). In later midrashim the title "Berabbi" is sometimes added to his name. He was a contemporary of Zeira and Abbabar Kahana. He...
discussion. Malbim wrote in the introduction to his Sifra edition that Hiyya barAbba was the redactor of the Sifra. There are no less than 39 passages in Jerusalem...
productive workers, from the contemporaries and pupils of Johanan down to Tanhuma ben Abba, who was illustrious as a collector and an editor of aggadic literature...
Reader. Society of Biblical Literature. pp. 40f. ISBN 1-58983-102-0. Silver, Abba Hillel (1927). "II The Mohammedan Period". History of Messianic Speculation...
Nathan the Babylonian Abba Jose ben Hanan (citing Eliezer) Eliezer ben Hurcanus Rabbi Akiva and his pupils Shimon bar Yochai and Judah bar Ilai Less frequently...
Hoshaiah is mentioned in the Mekhilta. Abba Arikha therefore probably redacted the work, as Menahem ibn Zerah says. Abba Arikha however, did not do this in...
Another Babylonian, Hiyya barAbba, belonged to the foremost leaders in the closing age of the Tannaim. His nephew, Abba Arika, afterward called simply...
Biblical words or sentences. According to Bar Kappara, Job lived in the time of Abraham; according to Abbabar Kahana, in the time of Jacob, he having married...
and several infancy gospels. Several narratives rely on Jewish Midrash Tanhuma legends, like the narrative of Cain learning to bury the body of Abel in...
Academies in Babylonia. The foundations of this process of analysis were laid by Abba Arika (175–247), a disciple of Judah ha-Nasi. Tradition ascribes the compilation...
composed in the middle of the 10th century in the Byzantine Empire, and Midrash Abba Gorion, composed in a similar place and time as De Ceremoniis. On the other...