Rava

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Rava was a prominent fourth-century Babylonian Talmudic sage whose legal debates with his colleague Abaye are central to rabbinic Jewish law and scholarship.

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Rava canonical 8

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Amora
Talmudic sage
rabbinic authority
activeInCentury 4th century
activeInRegion Mesopotamia
surface form: Babylonia
associatedWith rabbinic jurisprudence
centralFigureIn Talmud Bavli
surface form: Babylonian Talmud
centralTo development of rabbinic Jewish law
educatedAt yeshivot of Babylonia
eraWithinJudaism Amoraic period
followedBy Savoraim
hasColleague Abaye
Rav Nachman bar Yaakov
surface form: Rav Nachman

Rav Yosef
hasDebatesWith Abaye
influenced later halakhic codifiers
yeshiva study methods
languageOfWorkOrName Aramaic
legalMethod dialectical analysis of Talmudic texts
notableFor contributions to the Babylonian Talmud
halakhic rulings
legal debates with Abaye
occupation Talmudic scholar
rabbi
precededBy Tannaim
religion Judaism
sourceMentionedIn Talmud Bavli
surface form: Babylonian Talmud
timePeriod late Amoraic generation in Babylonia
tradition Rabbinic Judaism
workField Aggadah
Halakha

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