Ravina II

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Ravina II HaKohen or Rabina II (

Hebrew: רב אבינא בר רב הונא or רבינא האחרון; died 475 CE or 500 CE)[1] was a Babylonian rabbi of the 5th century (seventh and eighth generations of amoraim
).

He, along with his teacher

Babylonian Talmud
.

Biography

Most scholars agree that the rabbi here in question was Ravina the son of R. Huna bar Avin HaKohen, and not Ravina II, the colleague of Rav Ashi who died before Rav Ashi.[3]

He did not remember his father, R. Huna, who died while Ravina was still a child, but the Talmud states several times that his mother communicated to him the opinions held by his father.[4] After his father's death, his maternal uncle Ravina I became his guardian.[5]

Ravina II officiated as judge at

Magians.[9] He died on the 13th of Kislev in 474/475[10] or 499/500 CE.[11]

References

  1. OCLC 923562173
    .).
  2. ^ Bava Metzia 86a
  3. Sherira Gaon
    in ch. 11, p. 116.
  4. ^ Berachot 39b; Menachot 68b
  5. ^ Ketuvot 100b
  6. ^ Ketuvot 69a
  7. ^ Menachot 37b; Berachot 36a
  8. ^ Abraham ibn Daud "Sefer ha-Ḳabbalah," in Neubauer, "M. J. C." i. 61
  9. OCLC 923562173
    .; cf. Widengen, G. (1963). "The Status of the Jews in the Sassanian Empire". Iranica Antiqua I: 142–143.
  10. ^ Abraham ibn Daud, Sefer haKabbalah
  11. Sherira Gaon
    Neubauer, l.c. i. 34

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "RABINA II. (B. HUNA)". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

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