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RABBAH BAR NAHMANI (c. 270-0. 330)

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RABBAH

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BAR NAHMANI (c. 270-0. 330)  , a Babylonian
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rabbi or amora (q.v.) . He was for twenty-two years
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head of the
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Academy at Pumbeditha . His
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great
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dialectic skill acquired for him the epithet " uprooter of mountains." The
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Talmud owes much to this rabbi . He is said to have perished in a
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jungle into which he had fled from the
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officers of the
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Persian
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king . See
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Graetz,
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History of the
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Jews (Eng. trans.), vol. ii. ch. xxi . ; Bacher, Agada der Baby l . Amoraer, 97–101 . (I .

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