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Sama B. Rabba

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

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Babylonian amora; last head of the Pumbedita Academy. He was the successor of Raḥumai II., and officiated for about twenty years (456-476). He was a contemporary of Mar b. Ashi and of Rabba Tusfa'ah. Tradition relates that, in consequence of the prayers of the two school-leaders Mar b. Ashi and Sama b. Rabba, Yezdegerd II. was devoured in his bed by a dragon with the result that the persecution of the Jews ceased. Sama is mentioned three times in the Talmud (B. M. 42b; Zeb. 16a; Ḥul. 47b). Nothing else is known concerning him.

Bibliography:
  • Letter of Sherira Gaon, in Neubauer, M. J. C. 1:34;
  • Heilprin, Seder ha-Dorot, 2:96;
  • Grätz, Gesch. 4:373.
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Bibliography Information
Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Sama B. Rabba'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​s/sama-b-rabba.html. 1901.
 
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