The Jewish scholar Abba Arika (ca. 175-ca. 247), also known as Rav, founded a yeshiva, or academy, in Sura, Babylonia. The school remained an important center of Jewish learning until the 11th century. Abba Arika was born to an aristocratic family in...

RAV (lit., "rabbi"), epithet of Abbaʾ bar Ayyvu (c. 155–c. 247), a first-generation Babylonian amora. Rav helped lay the foundations for rabbinic Judaism in Babylonia. He studied in Palestine with his uncle...

(Abba Arikha) (3rd Century CE) Babylonian *amora. Rav founded the great academy at Sura and many of his discussions are recorded in the Babylonian...

Babylonian title for *Rabbi in *talmudic...

Abba Arika (175–247) (Talmudic Aramaic: אבא אריכא) was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, known as an amora (Jewish scholar) of the 3rd century who established at Sura the systematic study of the rabbinic traditions, which, using the...