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Name: Abba Arika
Birth Date: c. 175
Death Date: c. 247
Place of Birth: Kafri, Babylonia
Place of Death: Sura, Babylonia
Nationality: Babylonian
Gender: Male
Occupations: religious scholar, educator

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Biography of Abba Arika
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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...


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Rav Summary
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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...
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Abba Arika Information
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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...


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Dayton Daily News
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02/19/2005: 435 words, approx. 2 pages
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