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RABA BEN JOSEPH BEN HAMA (c. 280-352)

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BEN
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JOSEPH BEN HAMA (c. 280-352)  , Babylonian
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rabbi or amora . He is closely associated in his studies with Abaye . The latter was
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head of the
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Academy at Pumbeditha . Raba founded a new school at Mahuza, which eventually be-came so
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long as Raba lived the only academy in Babylonia (
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Persia) . The development of Talmudic
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Law (or Halakhah) was much indebted to this rabbi, whose
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influence in all branches of Jewish learning was supreme . His friendship with the
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King
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Shapur II. enabled Raba to secure a relaxation of the oppressive
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laws enacted against the
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Jews of Persia . See
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Graetz,
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History of the Jews; (Eng. trans., vol. ii. ch. xxi.); Bacher, Agada der Babyl . Amoraer, p. io8, &c. and 114-133 . (I .

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