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TANNAIM AND AMORAIM:   (print this article)   

By : Wilhelm Bacher   Jacob Zallel Lauterbach   Joseph Jacobs   Louis Ginzberg  

ARTICLE HEADINGS:
  The Name.
  First Generation (10-80 C.E.):
  Second Generation (80-120):
  Third Generation (120-140):
  Fourth Generation:
  Fifth Generation (165-200):
  Sixth Generation (200-220):

The Name.

The name "tanna" is derived from the Aramaic "teni" or "tena" (="to teach"), and designates in general a teacher of the oral law, and in particular one of the sages of the Mishnah, those teachers of the oral law whose teachings are contained in the Mishnah and in the Baraita. The term was first used in the Gemara to indicate a teacher mentioned in the Mishnah or in a baraita, in contradistinction to the later authorities, the Amoraim. Not all the teachers of the oral law who are mentioned in the Mishnah are called tannaim, however, but only those belonging to the period beginning with the disciples of Shammai and Hillel and ending with the contemporaries of Judah ha-Nasi I. The authorities preceding that period are called "zeḳenim ha-rishonim" (the former elders). In the time of the Amoraim the name "tanna" was given also to one well versed in the Mishnah and the other tannaitic traditions.

The period of the Tannaim, which lasted about 210 years (10-220 C.E.), is generally divided by Jewish scholars into five or six sections or generations, the purpose of such division being to show which teachers developed their principal activity contemporaneously. Some of the tannaim, however, were active in more than one generation. The following is an enumeration of the six generations and of the more prominent tannaim respectively belonging to them:

First Generation (10-80 C.E.):

Principal tannaim: the Shammaites (Bet Shammai) and the Hillelites (Bet Hillel), 'Aḳabya b. Mahalaleel, Rabban Gamaliel the Elder, Ḥanina, chief of the priests ("segan ha-kohanim"), Simeon b. Gamaliel, and Johanan b. Zakkai.

Second Generation (80-120):

Principal tannaim: Rabban Gamaliel II. (of Jabneh), Zadok, Dosa b. Harkinas, Eliezer b. Jacob, Eliezer b. Hyrcanus, Joshua b. Hananiah, Eleazar b. Azariah, Judah b. Bathyra.

Third Generation (120-140):

Principal tannaim: Ṭarfon, Ishmael, Akiba, Johanan b. Nuri, Jose ha-Gelili, Simeon b. Nanos, Judah b. Baba, and Johanan b. Baroḳa. Several of these flourished in the preceding period.

Fourth Generation:

This generation extended from the death of Akiba (c. 140) to that of the patriarch Simeon b. Gamaliel (c. 165). The teachers belonging to this generation were: Meïr, Judah b. Ilai, Jose b. Ḥalafta, Simeon b. Yoḥai, Eleazar b. Shammua, Johanan ha-Sandalar, Eleazar b. Jacob, Nehemiah, Joshua b. Ḳarḥa, and the above-mentioned Simeon b. Gamaliel.

Fifth Generation (165-200):

Principal tannaim: Nathan ha-Babli, Symmachus, Judah ha-Nasi I., Jose b. Judah, Eleazar b. Simeon, Simeon b. Eleazar.

Sixth Generation (200-220):

To this generation belong the contemporaries and disciples of Judah ha-Nasi. They are mentioned in the Tosefta and the Baraita but not in the Mishnah. Their names are: Polemo, Issi b. Judah, Eleazar b. Jose, Ishmael b. Jose, Judah b. Laḳish, Ḥiyya, Aḥa, Abba (Arika). These teachers are termed "semi-tannaim"; and therefore some scholars count only five generations of tannaim. Christian scholars, moreover, count only four generations, reckoning the second and third as one (Strack, "Einleitung in den Talmud," pp. 77 et seq.).

For the term "amora" and a list of the generations of amoraim, see Amora.W. B. J. Z. L.

The following list enumerates all the zeḳenim harishonim, tannaim, and amoraim mentioned in the Talmudic-Midrashic literature, those who are well known and frequently mentioned as well as those whose names occur once only in the Mishnah and Tosefta or in the Talmud and Midrash. To this pretannaitic period belong the so-called "pairs" ("zugot") of teachers: Simeon the Just and Antigonus of Soko; Jose ben Joezer and Jose ben Johanan; Joshua ben Peraḥyah and Nittai of Arbela; Judah ben Tabbai and Simeon ben Sheṭaḥ; Shemaiah and Abtalion; Hillel and Shammai.

Stars indicate that separate articles appear under the names so marked.List of Tannaim.

Abba Benjamin

*Abba Doresh

Abba Eleazar b. Dula'i

Abba Eleazar b. Gamaliel

*Abba Gorion of Sidon

*Abba Ḥanin

*Abba Jose b. Dosetai

*Abba Jose b. Ḥanin

*Abba Jose of Maḥoza

Abba Jose Torti

Abba Joseph the Horonite

Abba Kohen of Bardala

*Abba Saul

*Abba Saul b. Baṭnit

Abba Yudan of Sidon

*Absalom the Elder

*Abtalion

Abtolemus

Abtolos

Admon

*Aḥa I.

Aḥai b. Josiah

*'Aḳabya b. Mahalaleel

*Akiba b. Joseph

*Antigonus of Soko

Antoninus

Azariah

*Baba ben Buṭa

Baitos b. Zonin

*Bar Ḳappara

*Ben Bag-Bag

Ben Buḳri

Ben Paṭuri

Benaiah

*Benjamin (an Egyptian proselyte)

Dosa

Dosa b. Harkinas

*Dosetai

*Dosetai b. Judah

*Dosetai of Kefar Yatma

*Dosetai b. Yannai

*Eleazar ben Aḥwai

*Eleazar ben 'Arak

*Eleazar b. Azariah

*Eleazar ben Dama

Eleazar ben Hananiah ben Hezekiah

Eleazar b. Ḥarsom

*Eleazar b. Ḥisma

*Eleazar b. Jacob

*Eleazar b. Jose

*Eleazar b. Judah of Bartota

Eleazar b. Judah of Kefar Obelim

*Eleazar ha-Ḳappar

*Eleazar b. Mattai

*Eleazar of Modi'im

*Eleazar ben Peraṭa I.

*Eleazar ben Peraṭa II.

Eleazar b. Phinehas

Eleazar b. Pilai (or Piabi)

*Eleazar b. Shammua

*Eleazar b. Simeon

Eleazar b. Yannai

*Eliezer ben Hyrcanus

*Eliezer b. Isaac

*Eliezer b. Jacob (1st cent.)

*Eliezer b. Jose ha-Gelili

Eliezer b. Judah (contemporary of Judah I.)

*Eliezer b. Taddai

*Eliezer b. Zadok, I.

*Eliezer b. Zadok, II.

*Elisha ben Abuyah

*Ephraim Maḳsha'ah

*Eurydemus ben Jose

*Gamaliel I.

*Gamaliel II. (of Jabneh)

*Gamaliel III. (b. Judah I.)

*Ḥalafta

Ḥalafta b. Ḥagra

Ḥalafta b. Jose

*Ḥalafta b. Karuya

*Ḥalafta of Kefar Hananiah

*Hanan, Abba

*Hanan the Egyptian

Hanan b. Menahem

*Hananiah (n e p h e w of R. Joshua)

Hananiah b. 'Adai

*Hananiah b. 'Aḳabya

*Hananiah b. 'Aḳashyah

*Hananiah b. Ḥakinai

Hananiah b. Hezekiah b. Garon

Hananiah b. Jose ha-Gelili

*Hananiah b. Judah

*Hananiah of Ono

*Hananiah (Ḥanina) b. Teradion

Hananiah of Ṭibe'im

*Ḥanina

*Ḥanina b. Adda

*Ḥanina b. Antigonus

*Ḥanina b. Dosa

*Ḥanina b. Gamaliel II.

Ḥanina Segan ha-Kohanim

Hezekiah Abi 'Iḳḳesh

*Ḥidḳa

*Hillel

*Ḥiyya bar Abba (Rabbah)

Ḥiyya b. Eleazar ha-Ḳappar

Ḥiyya b. Naḥmani

Huzpit the Meturgeman

Ilai

Isaac

Ishmael b. Eleazar b. Azariah

*Ishmael b. Elisha

*Ishmael b. Johanan b. Baroḳa

*Ishmael b. Jose b. Ḥalafta

*Jacob of Kefar Ḥiṭṭaya

*Jacob b. Ḳorshai (R. Jacob)

Jaddua (Babylonian pupil of R. Meïr)

*Jeremiah

Jeshebab

*Johanan b. Baroḳa

Johanan b. Dahabai

*Johanan b. Gudgada

*Johanan ben ha-Ḥoranit

Johanan b. Joseph

Johanan ben Joshua

Johanan b. Josiah

Johanan b. Matthias

*Johanan b. Nuri

*Johanan ha-Sandalar

*Johanan b. Torta

*Johanan ben Zakkai

Jonathan b. Abtolemus

Jonathan b. Bathyra

Jonathan b. Joseph

Jonathan b. Meshullam

*Jonathan ben Uzziel

Jose (son of the Damascene)

*Jose b. 'Aḳabya

Jose b. Assi

Jose b. Eleazar

Jose b. Eliakim

Jose b. Elisha

*Jose ha-Gelili

Jose b. Gilai

Jose b. Gurya

*Jose b. Ḥalafta

Jose b. Ḥanina

Jose ha-Ḥoram

*Jose ben Joezer

*Jose ben Johanan

Jose ben Josiah

*Jose (Ise) ben Judah

Jose b. Ḳaẓrata

Jose b. Kippor

Jose b. Ḳisma

*Jose ha-Kohen

Jose b. Menahem

Jose b. Meshullam

Jose of Modi'im

Jose b. Petros

Jose b. Shammai

Jose b. Yasyan

Jose b. Zimra

Joshua b. Akiba

Joshua b. Bathyra

Joshua ha-Garsi

*Joshua b. Hananiah

Joshua b. Hyrcanus

Joshua b. Jonathan

Joshua b. Kaposai

*Joshua b. Ḳarḥa

Joshua b. Mamal

Joshua b. Matthias

*Joshua b. Peraḥyah

Joshua b. Ziruz

*Josiah

*Judah I. (ha-Nasi)

Judah b. Agra

*Judah b. Baba

*Judah b. Bathyra

Judah b. Dama

Judah b. Doroteus

Judah b. Gadish

Judah b. Gamaliel

Judah b. Gerim

Judah b. Hananiah

*Judah ben Ilai

Judah b. Jair

Judah b. Johanan b. Zakkai

Judah b. Jose

Judah ha-Kohen

*Judah ben Laḳish

Judah b. Naḳosa

Judah b. Nehemiah

Judah b. Ro'eẓ

Judah b. Shammua

Judah b. Simeon

Judah b. Ṭabbai

Judah b. Temah

Levi ha-Saddar

*Levi b. Sisi

Levitas of Jabneh

*Mattithiah b. Ḥeresh

Mattithiah b. Samuel

*Me'asha

*Meïr

Menahem of Galya

Menahem b. Jose

Menahem b. Nappaḥa

Menahem b. Sagnai

Mona

Monobaz

*Nahum of Gimzo

Nahum ha-Lablar

*Nahum the Mede

*Nathan

Nehemiah

Nehemiah of Bet Deli

Nehorai

Neḥunya b. Elinathan

Neḥunya b. Gudgada

*Neḥunya ben ha-Ḳanah

*Nittai of Arbela

*Onias ha-Me'aggel

*Onḳelos

Pappias

*Pappos b. Judah

Perida

*Phinehas ben Jair

Polemo

*Reuben ben Strobilus

Samuel the Younger

Shammai

Shela

Shemaiah

Simai

Simeon (brother of Azariah)

*Simeon b. 'Aḳashyah

Simeon b. Akiba

Simeon b. Azzai

Simeon b. Bathyra

*Simeon b. Eleazar

Simeon b. Gamaliel I.

Simeon b. Gamaliel II.

Simeon b. Gudda

Simeon b. Ḥalafta

*Simeon b. Ḥanina

Simeon he-Ḥasid

Simeon b. Hillel

*Simeon b. Jehozadak

*Simeon b. Jose b. Lekonya

*Simeon b. Judah of Kefar 'Ikos

*Simeon b. Judah ha-Nasi I.

Simeon the Just

Simeon b. Kahana

*Simeon of Ḳiṭron

*Simeon b. Menasya

*Simeon of Mizpah

*Simeon ben Nanos

*Simeon b. Nethaneel

*Simeon ha-Paḳoli

*Simeon ben ha-Segan

*Simeon ben Sheṭaḥ

*Simeon Shezuri

*Simeon of Shiḳmona

*Simeon b. Ṭarfon

*Simeon of Teman

*Simeon b. Yoḥai

Simeon b. Zoma

*Symmachus

*Ṭarfon

*Theodosius (T h e u d a s) of Rome

*Yannai

Zachariah b. Abkulas

Zachariah b. Ḳabutal

Zacbariah b. ha-Ḳaẓẓab

*ZakkaiJ. J. Z. L.List of Amoraim.

*Aaron (B)

Aaron (B)

Abba (father of Abba Mari; P)

Abba (father of Ḥiyya; B)

*Abba bar Abba (B)

Abba b. Abimai (B)

*Abba b. Abina (P)

*Abba of Acre (P)

Abba b. Aḥa (P)

Abba Arika (B)

Abba of Bira (P)

*Abba b. Bizna (P)

Abba of Cæsarea (P)

*Abba of Carthage (P)

Abba b. Eliashib (P)

Abba b. Hamnuna (P)

Abba bar Ḥana (P and B)

Abba Ḥanan (B)

Abba b. Ḥanina

Abba b. Ḥilefai (P)

*Abba b. Ḥiyya (P)

Abba b. Huna (B)

Abba b. Huna (P)

Abba b. Ilai (P)

Abba b. Isa (P)

Abba b. Isaac (P)

Abba b. Jacob (B)

Abba b. Jacob (P)

*Abba bar Jeremiah (B)

Abba b. Jonah (P)

Abba b. Joseph (B)

Abba b. Judah (P)

Abba b. Kahana (P)

Abba b. Levi (B)

Abba b. Lima

Abba b. Mar Papa (B)

Abba Mari (B)

Abba Mari (P)

Abba Mari (P)

Abba Mari (brother of Jose; P)

Abba b. Mari (?)

*Abba bar Memel (P)

Abba b. Mina (P)

Abba b. Naḥman (B)

Abba of Narsoh

Abba b. Nathan (P)

Abba bar Papa (P)

*Abba b. Pappai (P)

Abba b. Safra (P)

Abba b. Samuel Rabbah

Abba b. Shila

Abba b. Taḥlifa (P)

Abba Umana (B)

Abba b. Zabda (B)

*Abba b. Zabdai (P)

Abba b. Ze'era (P)

Abba Zuṭi

Abba b. Zuṭra (P)

Abbahu (P)

Abbahu (father of Samuel)

Abbahu b. Aḥa (P)

Abbahu b. Bebi (B)

Abbahu b. Ehi (B)

Abbahu b. Geniba (B)

Abbahu b. Zuṭarti (B)

Abbai (called Naḥmani; B)

Abbai b. Abbin (B)

Abbai b. Benjamin (P)

Abbai the Elder (B)

Abdima b. Ḥama (B)

*Abdima b. Hamdure (P)

Abdima b. Ḥisda (B)

Abdima b. Neḥunya (P)

*Abdima of Sepphoris (P)

Abdimi (brother of Jose)

Abdimi (father of Isaac)

*Abdimi of Ḥaifa

*Abiathar

*Abimi (B)

*Abimi b. Abbahu (P)

Abimi the Colleague

*Abimi of Hagrunya

Abimi the Nabatæan

Abimi b. Papi (B)

Abimi b. Tobi (P)

Abin (the pupil of Johanan)

*Abin (Rabin) b. Abba (P)

*Abin ben Adda (B)

Abin b. Bisna (P)

Abin b. Ḥinana (B)

*Abin b. Ḥiyya (P)

Abin b. Ḥuna (B)

*Abin b. Kahana (P)

Abin ha-Levi (P)

Abin Naggara

Abin b. Naḥman (B)

Abin of Nashikiya

Abin the Old

*Abin b. Rab Ḥisda (P)

Abin b. Samuel

Abin of Sepphoris

*Abin b. Tanḥum (P)

Abina I. (P)

Abina II. (B)

Abina III. (B)

Abram of Ḥuza (B)

Abudemi (grandson of Tobi; P)

Abudemi b. Tanḥum (P)

Abudemi b. Tobi (P)

*Adda b. Abimi (P)

Adda b. Abin (B)

Adda b. Aḥa (B)

*Adda b. Ahabah (B)

Adda of Be Zeluḥit

*Adda of Cæsarea

Adda b. Isaac (B)

Adda of Jaffa

Adda Karḥina

*Adda b. Matnah (B)

*Adda b. Minyomi (B)

Adda of Naresh

Adda b. Papa (B)

Adda b. Simi (B)

*Adda b. Simeon (P)

Adda of Sura

Afes (Efes) (P; 1)

Aggara or Agra (B)

Aḥa (brother of R. Jose)

Aḥa b. Abba (B)

Aḥa b. R. Abba (B)

Aḥa b. Abba b. Aḥa (B)

Aḥa b. Abbai (B)

Aḥa b. Abin (P)

*Aḥa b. Adda (B)

Aḥa b. Aḥa (B)

Aḥa b. Ahaba (P)

Aḥa b. Ami (B)

Aḥa b. Ashi (B)

Aḥa b. Awira (B)

*Aḥa b. Awya (B)

Aḥa b. Azza (B)

*Aḥa Bardala

Aḥa of Be Ḥusa

Aḥa b. Bebi (B)

Aḥa b. Bizna (P)

Aḥa of Carthage

Aḥa of Carthage (P)

*Aḥa of Difti

Aḥa of Galilee

*Aḥa b. Ḥanina (P)

Aḥa b. Haya (B)

Aḥa b. Hoshaiah (P)

*Aḥa b. Ḥuna (B)

Aḥa of Huẓal

*Aḥa b. Iḳa (B)

*Aḥa b. Isaac (P)

*Aḥa b. Jacob (B)

Aḥa b. Jose (P)

*Aḥa b. Joseph (B)

Aḥa b. Ḳaṭṭina (B)

Aḥa the Long (B)

*Aḥa b. Minyomi (B)

Aḥa b. Naḥman (B)

Aḥa b. Papa

Aḥa b. Phinehas (B)

Aḥa of Porsika

Aḥa b. Rabbina (B)

Aḥa Saba

Aḥa Sar ha-Birah

*Aḥa b. Shila (P)

*Aḥa b. Taḥlifa (B)

*Aḥa b. 'Ula (B)

Aḥa b. Yeba

Ahabah b. Ze'era (P)

*Aḥadboi (B)

*Aḥadboi b. Ammi (B)

Aḥadboi b. Matnah

Ahilai (B)

Aibu (name of several Palestinian amoraim)

Alexa (P)

Alexandra b. Haga (P)

*Alexandri (P)

*Alexandri (P)

*Amemar I.

*Amemar b. Mar Yanuḳa (B)

Ammi (P)

Ammi (father of Samuel)

Ammi b. Abba (B)

Ammi b. Abin (B)

Ammi b. Ada (B)

Ammi b. Aḥa (B)

Ammi the Babylonian

Ammi b. Ḳarḥa (P)

Ammi b. Matnah (B)

Ammi b. Nathan (B)

Ammi b. Tobi

Ammi of Wadina (P; 3)

*Amram R. (B; 3)

*Amram Ḥasida (B)

Anan b. Ḥiyya (B)

Anan b. Joseph (P)

Anan b. Taḥlifa (B; 2)

*'Anani b. Sason (P; 3)

Armania (P; 1)

*Ashi (B; 6)

Ashi b. Abin (B; 4)

Ashi of Awira? (6)

Ashi of Huẓal (B; 4)

Ashi the Old (B; 1)

*Ashyan bar Jakim (P; 4)

*Ashyan Naggara

*Ashyan b. Nidbak (P)

*Assi I. (B)

*Assi II. (P)

Assi of Nehor Bal (B)

*Awia Saba

*Awira (B; 3)

Babahu (B)

Bali (B; 4)

Banna'ah or Bannayah (P; 1)

Banna'ah b. 'Ula (B; 4)

Baruka of Ḥuza (B; 5)

Baruna (B; 2)

Batha (B and P; 3)

Beba b. Abba (P; 3)

*Bebai b. Abaye (B; 5)

*Bebai b. Abba (P)

Bebai b. Ashi (B; 6)

Bebai b. Mesharshiya (P; 5)

*Benjamin b. 'Ashtor (P; 3)

*Benjamin b. Giddel (P; 4)

Benjamin Ḥiyya (B)

*Benjamin b. Japhet (P; 8)

*Benjamin b. Levi (P; 3)

Beotes (P; 3)

Berechiah (P; 5)

*Berechiah (P; 2)

Berechiah b. Abba (P)

Berechiah b. Ḥamma

Berechiah ben Ḥelbo (P; 4)

Berechiah b. Judah (P)

Berechiah Saba

Berechiah b. Simeon (P; 2)

Berim (P; 2)

Berna or Bera (B; 4)

Bisa or Bisna (P; 1)

*Bisna (P; 4)

Bisna b. Zabda (P)

Budia (B; 6)

Burakai (P; 5)

*Daniel, Ḥayyaṭa (P)

*Daniel b. Ḳaṭṭina (B)

Dari b. Papa (B)

*Dimi (brother of Rab Safra; B; 4)

Dimi b. Abba (B)

Dimi b. Abui

*Dimi b. Ḥinena (B; 5)

*Dimi b. Huna of Damharia

(B; 6)

*Dimi b. Isaac (B; 4)

*Dimi b. Joseph (B; 3)

*Dimi b. Levai (B; 4)

Dimi b. Naḥman (B; 5)

*Dimi of Nehardea (B)

Dimi b. Sheshna

Dosetai (father of Aftoriki)

Dosetai of Beri

Dosetai b. Maton

Elai b. Berechiah (P)

Elai b. Eliezer (B; 2)

*Eleazar b. Abina (P)

Eleazar b. Antigonus (P; 2)

Eleazar of Basra (P)

*Eleazar of Hagrunya (B; 4)

Eleazar b. Ḥagya

Eleazar b. Ḥanina (P)

*Eleazar b. Jose II. (P; 5)

*Eleazar b. Malai (P; 3)

Eleazar b. Maram (Miriam or Maron?) (P; 4)

Eleazar b. Marinus (P)

*Eleazar b. Menahem (P; 3)

Eleazar the Nabatæan

Eleazar of Nineveh (B; 3)

*Eleazar b. Pedat (P; 3)

Eleazar of the South (P; 5)

Eleazar b. Yannai (P; 2)

Eleazar Ze'era (the little)

Eliakim (B; 5)

Eliehoenai (P)

Ezekiel

Gadda (B; 4)

Gamaliel b. Elai (P; 4)

Gamaliel b. Ḥanina (P; 4)

Gamaliel Zoga (P; 2)

Gamda

*Gebiha of Argizah (B; 5)

*Gebiha of Be Katil (B; 5)

Gedaliah

Geniba (B; 1)

Gershom (P; 5)

Gidal or Giddul (B; 2)

Gidal b. Minyomi

Gidal of Naresh

Giddul b. Benjamin (P; 2)

Giddul b. Menaschi (B; 5)

Giora (proselyte)

Gorion (P; 2)

Gorion of Asparak (B; 3)

Gorion b. Astion (B)

Ḥabiba (B; 1)

Ḥabiba of Ḥuza (B; 6)

Ḥabiba b. Joseph (B; 4)

Ḥabiba of Sora (B; 6)

Ḥabiba b. Surmaki (B and P; 4)

Ḥagga (B; 4?), contemporary of R. Naḥman

Ḥagga (pupil of R. Huna; B; 4)

Ḥagga of Sepphoris (P; 2)

Haggai (P; 3)

Haggai Kusmai (?)

Haggai of the South (P; ?)

Hagra (Haggaria; P; 2)

Ḥalafta of Cæsarea (P)

*Ḥalafta of Huna (P; 1)

*Ḥalafta Ḳaroya (the Bible reader)

Ḥalafta of Radfa (P; 2)

Ḥalfa b. Idi (P)

Ḥama (grandfather of Raba)

Ḥama b. Adda

Ḥama b. Ashi (P)

*Ḥama b. Bisa (P)

Ḥama b. Buzi (B; 5)

Ḥama b. Gurya (B; 3)

*Ḥama b. Ḥanina (P; 2)

Ḥama b. Joseph (P; 2)

Ḥama b. Mari

Ḥama of Nehardea (B; 5)

Ḥama b. Osha'ya (P; 2)

Ḥama b. Papa (P; 5)

Ḥama b. Rabbah (P; 4)

Ḥama b. Tobia (B; 6)

Ḥama b. 'Uḳba (P; 3)

Hamnuna (B; 2)

*Hamnuna I. (B; 3)

*Hamnuna II. (B; 3, 4)

Hamnuna b. Ada b. Ahabah (B; 6)

Hamnuna of Babylonia

Hamnuna b. Joseph (B; 4)

Hamnuna b. Rabbah of Pashronia (B)

*Hamnuna Zuṭa

Ḥana b. Adda

Ḥana b. Aḥa

Ḥana of Bagdad

*Ḥana b. Bizna

Ḥana of Carthage

*Ḥana b. Ḥanilai

Ḥana b. Ḥinena

Ḥana b. Judah

Ḥana b. Ḳaṭṭina

Ḥana of Kefar Teḥumim

Ḥana b. Lewai

Ḥana Sha'onah

Hanan b. Abba (B; 2)

Hanan b. Ammi

Hanan of Be Zeluḥit

Hanan Ḥayyaṭa

Hanan b. Ḥisda (B; 4)

Hanan of Nehardea (B; 2)

Hanan b. Rabbah (B; 2)

Hanan b. Taḥlifa (B; 4)

Hanan b. Zabdi (P; 1)

Hanana (B; 3)

*Hananeel (B; 2)

Hananeel b. Papa (B)

Hananiah (B)

Hananiah (B; 4)

Hananiah (B)

*Hananiah (P; 3, 4)

Hananiah b. Aibu (P)

Ḥanilai of Ḥuza

Ḥanilai b. Idi

Ḥanina (B; 6)

*Ḥanina b. Abbahu (P; 4)

Ḥanina b. Abdimi (B)

*Ḥanina b. 'Agul (P; 3)

Ḥanina of Akra

Ḥanina of Anat

Ḥanina b. Andrai (P)

Ḥanina b. Atal

Ḥanina b. Bebai (B; 5)

*Ḥanina b. Ḥama (P; 1)

Ḥanina b. Hillel (P)

Ḥanina b. Ḥiyya (B; 3)

Ḥanina of Ḥuza

*Ḥanina b. Iḳa

Ḥanina b. Isi (P; 3)

Ḥanina b. Joseph (P; 1)

Ḥanina Ḳara (the Bible reader)

*Ḥanina Katoba (the writer)

*Ḥanina b. Papa (B)

*Ḥanina b. Pazi (P)

Ḥanina b. Samson (P)

Ḥanina b. Samuel (P; 2)

Ḥanina Sholḳa (the cook)

Ḥanina b. Sisi (P; 1)

*Ḥanina of Sura

Ḥanina of Sura near the Euphrates

Ḥanina b. Tiba

Ḥanina of Tirta or Tarna

*Ḥanina b. Torta

Ḥanina b. Uri

*Ḥasa

Henaḳ

Hezekiah (B)

Hezekiah (P)

Hezekiah Akkaya

Hezekiah b. Ḥiyya

Hezekiah of Hukuk

Ḥilfa (P; 2)

Ḥilfa (grandson of Abbahu; 4)

Hilkiah (father of Minjamin; B)

Hilkiah b. Awia (B)

Hilkiah of Hagrunya (B)

Hilkiah b. Tobia (B; 3)

Hilkiah of the South (B)

Hillel (P; 3)

Hillel (B; 6)

Hillel (son-in-law of Jose; P; 6)

*Hillel b. Berechiah (P)

Hillel b. Helena (P)

Hillel of Kifra (P; 5)

Hellel b. Pazi (P; 4)

Hillel b. Samuel b. Naḥman (P; 4)

Hillel b. Vales (Valens; P; 3)

Ḥinena (father of Yanta)

Ḥinena b. Abin

Ḥinena b. Assi

Ḥinena b. Kahana (B; 3)

Ḥinena b. Rabbah (B; 4)

Ḥinena b. Shelamya (B; 2)

Ḥinena b. Shila (B; 1)

Ḥinena of Wardan

*Ḥisda (B; 3)

Ḥisda b. Abdami

Ḥisda b. Joseph (B; 4)

Ḥiyya

Ḥiyya (P and B; 4)

Ḥiyya b. Abba (B and P; 3)

Ḥiyya b. Abbahu (B)

Ḥiyya b. Abbui (B; 4)

*Ḥiyya b. Adda (P)

Ḥiyya b. Adda (P; 5)

Ḥiyya b. Adda of Joppa (P)

Ḥiyya b. Ammi (B; 4)

Ḥiyya b. Amram (B)

Ḥiyya Arika (the tall one)

Ḥiyya b. Ashi (B; 2)

Ḥiyya b. Assi (B)

Ḥiyya b. Awia (B; 3)

Ḥiyya of Ctesiphon (B; 3)

Ḥiyya of Difta (B; 3)

*Ḥiyya b. Gammada (P)

Ḥiyya b. Garya (B)

Ḥiyya of Hagra (B; 3)

Ḥiyya b. Ḥanina (B)

Ḥiyya b. Huna (B; 5)

Ḥiyya of Hurmis (B; 4)

Ḥiyya b. Isaac (P)

Ḥiyya b. Isaac (P; 5)

Ḥiyya b. Jacob (P)

Ḥiyya b. Joseph (B and P; 2)

Ḥiyya b. Joshua? (B; 4)

Ḥiyya b. Judah

Ḥiyya b. Judah (B; 3)

*Ḥiyya Ḳara (the Bible reader)

Ḥiyya of Kefar Teḥumim (P; 4)

Ḥiyya b. Lulianos (P; 5)

Ḥiyya b. Luliba (P; 4)

Ḥiyya b. Matnah (B; 3)

*Ḥiyya b. Moria (P; 5)

Ḥiyya b. Naḥman (P; 3)

Ḥiyya b. Nathan (B; 4)

Ḥiyya b. Papa (P; 3)

Ḥiyya of Parwada (B; 3)

Ḥiyya b. Rab (B; 2)

Ḥiyya b. Rabbah (B; 4)

Ḥiyya b. Shabbethai (P; 4)

Ḥiyya b. Tanḥum (P; 4)

Ḥiyya b. Tiba

Ḥiyya b. Titus (P; 4)

Ḥiyya b. 'Uḳba (P)

Ḥiyya b. Yannai (P)

Ḥiyya b. Zarnaki (P; 2)

*Huna (B)

Huns b. Abin (B; 5)

Huna b. Aḥa

Huna b. Ashi (B; 2)

Huna b. Berechiah

Huna of Damharia

Huna of Diskarta

Huna b. Geniba

Huna b. Halob (B; 4)

*Huna b. Ḥauina (B; 4)

Huna of Hauran

Huna b. Hillel (P)

Huna b. Hiwan (B; 6)

Huna b. Ḥiyya (B)

Huna b. Ida (B; 6)

Huna b. Iḳa (B; 6)

Huns b. Ilai

Huna b. Jeremiah (B; 5)

*Huna b. Joshua (B; 5)

Huna b. Judah (B; 4)

Huna b. Ḳaṭṭina (B; 3)

Huna b. Lewai (B)

Huna b. Manoah (B; 5)

Huna Mar b. Awia (B; 5)

Huna b. Maremor (B; 6)

Huna b. Matnah (B; 4)

Huna b. Minyomi (B; 3)

Huna b. Moses (B; 4)

Huna b. Naḥman (B; 4)

*Huna b. Nathhan (B; 7)

Huna b. Nehemiah (B; 6)

Huna b. Papi

Huna b. Phinehas (B)

Huna of Porsica

Huna b. Rabbah (B; 6)

Huna b. Saḥḥora (B; 4)

Huna of Sepphoris

Huna of Sura

Huna b. Taḥlifa (B; 5)

Huna b. Torta

Huna b. Zuṭi (B; 6)

Hunya Jacob of Apretaim

Ishmael (father of Judah; P; 3)

Ishmael b. Abba (P; 2)

Ishmael b. Jacob (P)

Ishmael b. Kathriel (P; 1)

Ishmael of Kefar Yama (P; 3)

Isaac (B; 6)

Isaac (father of Samuel)

Isaac b. Abba (B; 2)

Isaac b. Abba (B; 4)

Isaac b. Abdimi I. (P; 1)

Isaac b. Abdimi II. (B; 3)

Isaac b. Abin

†Isaac b. Adda (B)

Isaac b. Aḥa (B)

Isaac b. Ammi (P)

Isaac b. Ammi (B; 4)

Isaac b. Ashi (B; 2)

Isaac b. Ashya (B; 3)

†Isaac ha-Babli

Isaac Berrabi

Isaac b. Bisna (B; 2)

†Isaac of Carthage

Isaac Dibaha

Isaac b. Elai

Isaac b. Eliashib (P; 4)

†Isaac b. Eleazar (P; 4)

Isaac of Gufta

†Isaac b. Ḥaḳola

Isaac b. Ḥalub (B; 3)

Isaac b. Ḥanina (B; 3)

†Isaac b. Ḥiyya (P; 2)

Isaac b. Jacob

Isaac b. Jonathan (P; 4)

Isaac b. Joseph (P; 2 and 3)

Isaac b. Judah (B; 3)

Isaac b. Ḳappara (P)

Isaac Kaskasa

Isaac of Kefar 'Itos

Isaac Krispa

Isaac b. Levi

†Isaac of Magdala

†Isaac b. Marion (P; 3)

Isaac b. Menahem (P)

Isaac b. Mesharshiya (B, P; 6)

Isaac b. Naḥmani (P; 3)

Isaac b. Naphtali (B; 6)

†Isaac Nappaḥa (the smith)

Isaac b. Ostiya (P)

†Isaac b. Parnak

Isaac Paska

†Isaac b. Phinehas (B and P; 3)

Isaac b. Rabbah b. bar Ḥana (B; 4)

†Isaac b. Redifa (P; 4)

Isaac b. Samuel (B; 2)

Isaac b. Shila (B)

Isaac b. Simeon (P)

†Isaac b. Tabla (P; 4)

Isaac b. Teradion

†Isaac b. Ze'era or Sita (P; 4)

Jabez

Jacob (grandson of Aḥa b. Jacob)

Jacob (grandson of Samuel)

*Jacob b. Abba I.

*Jacob b. Abba II.

*Jacob b. Abbuha

*Jacob b. Abina

Jacob b. Adda

Jacob b. Adda b. Athaliah

Jacob of Adiabene

*Jacob b. Aḥa (B; 3)

Jacob b. Aḥa (P)

*Jacob b. Aḥa (P; 4)

Jacob b. Aḥa b. Idi

Jacob b. Ammi

Jacob of Armenia

Jacob b. Dosai

Jacob of Emaus

Jacob of Gebula

Jacob b. Ḥama

Jacob b. Hapiliti (Hippolytus)

Jacob b. Ḥisda

Jacob b. Idi

Jacob b. Idi b. Oshaya

Jacob b. Ise (Jose)

*Jacob of Kefar Ḥanin

Jacob of Neboria

Jacob of Nehar-Peḳod

Jacob of Rumania

Jacob b. Sisai

Jacob of the South

Jacob b. Taḥlifa

Jacob b. Yannai

Jacob b. Yoḥai

*Jacob b. Zabdai

Jehiel

Jeremiah (B; 6)

Jeremiah (B and P; 2)

*Jeremiah b. Abba (B; 3)

Jeremiah b. Aḥa (B)

*Jeremiah of Difte

Jeremiah of Gufta

Jeremiah Rabba (the great)

Jeremiah Safra (the scribe)

Jeremiah of Shebshab

Jeremiah of the South

Jeremiah b. Taḥlifa (B)

Johanan (son of the smith)

Johanan (brother of Safra; B)

Johanan Antonarta

Johanan b. Kassarta

Johanan of Maḥuka (P; 1)

Johanan b. Meriya (P; 5)

*Johanan b. Nappaḥa

Johanan b. Rabbina (B; 5)

Johanan Safra of Gufta

Johanan b. Shila (P)

Joḥani (B; 1)

*Jonah (P; 4)

Jonah of Bosra (P; 5)

Jonah b. Taḥlifa (B; 4)

Jonathan (P; 1)

Jonathan b. 'Akmai (P; 3)

Jonathan b. Amram (P; 1)

*Jonathan of Bet Gubrin (P)

Jonathan b. Eliezer

Jonathan b. Haggai (P)

Jonathan b. Ḥila (P)

Jonathan b. Isaac b. Ahor (P)

Jonathan Kefa (P; 4)

Jose b. Abba or Abai

*Jose b. Abin

Jose b. Ashyan

Jose b. Bebai

Jose of Cæsarea

Jose b. Elai

Jose b. Eliakim

Jose the Galilean (amora)

Jose b. Gezira

Jose b. Hananiah

Jose b. Ḥanina

Jose of Kefar Dan

Jose of Kefar Gufta

Jose Kuzira

*Jose b. Jacob

Jose b. Jason

Jose b. Jose

Jose b. Joshua

*Jose b. Ḳaẓrata

*Jose of Malaḥaya

Jose the Mede

Jose b. Menashya

Jose of Nahar Bul

Jose b. Nathan

*Jose b. Nehorai

Jose of Oni

Jose b. Pazi

Jose b. Petros

Jose Resha

Jose b. Saul

Jose of the South

Jose b. Tanḥum

Jose of Yodkarat

Jose of Zaitur

Jose b. Zebida

Jose b. Zemina

Jose b. Zimra

Joseph b. Abba

Joseph b. Ammi

Joseph b. Ḥabu

Joseph b. Ḥama

Joseph b. Ḥanin

Joseph b. Ḥiyya

*Joseph b. Joshua b. Levi

Joseph b. Menasya of Dewil

Joseph b. Minyomi

Joseph b. Neḥunya

Joseph b. Rabba

Joseph b. Salla

Joseph b. Samuel

Joseph b. Shemaiah

Joseph of Sidon

Joshua (brother of Dorai; P)

Joshua b. Abba

*Joshua b. Abin (P)

Joshua b. Benjamin

Joshua b. Beri (P)

Joshua b. Boethus

Joshua of Gizora (P; 4)

Joshua b. Idi

*Joshua (ha-Kohen) b. Nehemiah (P)

*Joshua b. Levi

Joshua b. Levi b. Shalum

Joshua b. Marta (B; 1)

Joshua b. Naḥman

*Joshua b. Nehemiah

Joshua of Ona (P)

Joshua b. Pedaya

*Joshua of Shiknin

Joshua of the South

Joshua b. Tanḥum

Joshua b. Timi (P)

Joshua of 'Uzza

Joshua b. Zidal (P; 1)

Josiah

Josiah of Huẓal

Josiah of Usha

Judah (brother of Sola Ḥasida)

Judah b. Aḥitai

Judah b. Aibu

*Judah b. Ammi

Judah b. Ashi

Judah b. Ashtita

Judah b. Astira

Judah b. Bisna

Judah b. Buni

Judah of Difte

Judah of Diskarta

*Judah b. Ezekiel

Judah of Gallia

Judah b. Gamda

Judah b. Ḥabiba

Judah of Hagrunya

Judah b. Ḥama

Judah b. Ḥanina

Judah b. Ḥiyya

Judah b. Huna

Judah b. Idi

Judah b. Isaac

Judah b. Ishmael

Judah b. Joshua

Judah Klaustra

Judah b. Levi

Judah b. Menashya

Judah b. Meremar

Judah Mosparta

Judah b. Naḥmani

Judah b. Oshaya

Judah b. Pazi

Judah b. Pedaiah

Judah b. Samuel

Judah b. Shalum

Judah b. Shila

*Judah b. Simeon

Judah b. Simeon b. Pazi

Judah of Soporta

Judah b. Titos

Judah b. Zabda

Judah b. Zebina

Judah b. Zeruya

Justa Ḥabra (the Colleague; P)

Justa b. Judah (P)

Justa of Shunem (P; 5 and 6)

Justa b. Simeon (P; 4)

Justina (P; 3)

Kadi

Kahana (B)

Kahana (B and P)

Kahana (brother of Judah)

Kahana (father-in-law of Mesharshiya)

Kahana b. Ḥanina

Kaha b. Jeremiah

Kahana b. Malkai

Kahana b. Malkiya

Kahana b. Nathan

Kahana b. Nehemiah

*Kahana b. Taḥlifa

Ḳarna

*Ḳaṭṭina

Kiris of Urmia

Krispa

Kruspedai

Levanti

Levi b. Berechiah

Levi of Biri

Levi b. Buta

Levi b. Ḥaita

Levi b. Ḥama

Levi b. Ḥini

Levi b. Ḥiyya

Levi b. Huna

Levi b. Isaac

*Levi b. Laḥma

Levi b. Panti

Levi b. Parta

Levi b. Pitam

Levi b. Rabbi

Levi Saba

Levi b. Samuel

Levi b. Samuel b. Naḥman

Levi of Sandaria

Levi b. Seira

*Levi b. Sisi

Levi of Suki

Luda

Lulinos of the South

Lulianos of Tiberias

Malkio

Maluk of Arabia

Mana of Sepphoris

Mana of Shab

Mana b. Tanḥum

Manasseh

Manasseh b. Zebid

Mani b. Jonah

Mani b. Patish

Mar b. Ashi

Mar Johanya (B; 4)

Mar b. Joseph

Mar Kashshisha

Mar b. Rabina

Mar Yanka

Mari (son of the proselyte Isar)

Mari b. Abbuh

Mari b. Bisnaa

Mari b. Ḥisda

Mari b. Huna

Mari b. Kahana

Mari b. Mar

Mari b. Phinehas

Mari b. 'Uḳba

Marino

Marinus

Marinus b. Oshaya

Marion

Matnah

Mattatya b. Judah

Matun

Menahem of Gallia

Menahem b. Nopaḥ

Menahem. b. Simai

Menahem Tolomia

Menashya

Menashya of Dewil

Menashya b. Gada

Menashya b. Jacob

Menashya b. Jeremiah

Menashya b. Judah

Menashya b. Menahem

Menashya b. Raba

Menashya b. Taḥlifa

Meremar

Meremar b. Ḥanina

Mesharshiya b. Ammi

Mesharshiya b. Idi

Mesharshiya b. Dimi

Mesharshiya b. Nathan

Mesharshiya b. Paḳod

Mesharshiya b. Raba

Mesharshiya of Tosnia

Minyomi

Mona

Mordecai

Naḥman b. Ada

Naḥman b. Baruk

Naḥman b. Gurya

Naḥman b. Ḥisdai

Naḥman b. Isaac

*Naḥman b. Jacob

Naḥman b. Kohen

Naḥman b. Minyomi

Naḥman b. Papa

Naḥman b. Parta

Naḥman b. Rabbah

Naḥman b. Samuel

Naḥman b. Zabda

Nahum (brother of Ila)

Nahum (servant of Abbahu)

Naḥumi

Naḥumi b. Zechariah

Naphtali

Nasah

Nathan (father of Huna)

Nathan (brother of Ḥiyya)

Nathan b. Abba

Nathan b. Abbai

Nathan b. Abin

Nathan b. Ammi

Nathan b. Asya

Nathan b. Berechiah

Nathan of Bira

Nathan b. Mar 'Uḳba

Nathan b. Mar Zuṭra

Nathan b. Minyomi

Nathan b. Oshaya

Nathan b. Tobia

*Nathan de Ẓuẓita (exilarch)

Nehemiah

Nehemiah b. Ḥiyya

Nehemiah b. Huna

Nehemiah b. Joseph

Nehemiah b. Joshua

Nehilai

Nehorai

Nehorai b. Shemaiah

Niha b. Saba

Niḳomeki

Osha'ya (Hoshaiah)

Paddat

Paddaya

Panda

*Papa

Papa b. Abba

Papa b. Aḥa

Papa b. Hanan of Be Ẓeluḥit

Papa b. Joseph

Papa b. Naḥman

Papa Saba

Papa b. Samuel

Parnak

Pazi

*Pereda

Philippi

Phinehas

Phinehas b. Ammi

*Phinehas b. Ḥama

Phinehas b. Hananiah

Phinehas b. Ḥisda

Phinehas of Joppa

Phinehas ha-Kohen

Phinehas b. Mari

Phinehas b. Zakkai

*Raba b. Ada

*Raba b. Joseph b. Ḥama

Raba b. 'Ula

Rabbah b. Abba

*Rabbah b. Abuha

Rabbah b. Aḥa

Rabbah b. Ahilai

Rabbah b. Ahini

Rabbah b. Ammi

Rabbah b. Ashi

Rabbah b. Bar Ḥanah

Rabbah of Barnash

Rabbah b. Baruna

Rabbah b. Ḥaklai

*Rabbah b. Hanan

Rabbah b. Ḥanina

*Rabbah b. Ḥiyya

*Rabbah b. Huna

Rabbah b. Idi b. Abin

Rabbah b. Ihi or Iti

Rabbah b. Ilai

Rabbah b. Isaac

Rabbah b. Ishmael

Rabbah b. Isi

Rabbah b. Jeremiah

Rabbah b. Jonathan

Rabbah b. Kahana

Rabbah b. Ḳisma

Rabbah of Kubaya

Rabbah b. Lema

Rabbah b. Lewai

Rabbah b. Marion

*Rabbah b. Matnah

Rabbah b. Meḥasya

Rabbah b. Mesharshiya

Rabbah b. Minyomi

Rabbah b. Papa

*Rabbah of Parziḳi

Rabbah b. Raba

Rabbah b. Saba

Rabbah b. Safra

*Rabbah b. Samuel

*Rabbah b. Shela

Rabbah b. Shumni

Rabbah b. Simi

Rabbah b. Taḥlifa

Rabbanai

Rabbanai of Ḥuza

*Rabina I.

*Rabina II.

Rabina III.

Rafram

*Rafram I. (b. Papa)

*Rafram II.

Raḥbah or Reḥabah

Raḥmai

Rakish b. Papa

Rammi b. Abba

Rammi b. Berechiah

Rammi b. Ezekiel

Rammi b. Ḥama

Rammi b. Judah

Rammi b. Papa

Rammi b. Rab

Rammi b. Samuel

Rammi b. Tamre

Rammi b. Yeba

Redifa

Reuben

Romanus

Safra

Safra b. Se'oram

Safra b. Tobia

Safra b. Yeba

Saḥḥorah

Salla Ḥasida (the pious)

Samlai

Samlai of Bira

Samlai of Cæsarea

Samlai of Lydda

Samma b. Aibu

Samma b. Asi

Samma b. Ḥalkai

Samma b. Jeremiah

Samma b. Judah

Samma b. Mari

Samma b. Mesbarshiya

Samma b. Rabbah

Samma b. Rakta

Samuel (brother of Berechiah)

Samuel (brother of Osha'ya)

Samuel (brother of Phinehas b. Ḥama)

Samuel b. Abba

Samuel (Mar) b. Abba b. Abba

Samuel b. Abba of Hagrunya

*Samuel b. Abbahu

Samuel b. Abdimi

Samuel b. Abin

Samuel b. Ada

Samuel b. Aḥa

Samuel b. Aḥitai

Samuel b. Ahunai

*Samuel b. Ammi

*Samuel b. Anaya

Samuel b. Bisna

Samuel of Cappadocia

Samuel of Difte

Samuel b. Gedaliah

Samuel b. Ḥalafta

Samuel b. Hananiah

Samuel b. Ḥanina

*Samuel b. Ḥiyya

Samuel b. Iḳa

Samuel b. Isaac

Samuel b. Jacob

*Samuel b. Jose b. Bun

Samuel b. Judah of India

Samuel b. Ḳaṭṭina

Samuel b. Marta

Samuel b. Nadab

*Samuel b. Naḥmani

*Samuel b. Nathan

Samuel b. Papa

Samuel Podagrita

Samuel b. Raba

Samuel b. Rabbi

Samuel Saba

Samuel b. Shaba

Samuel b. Shilot

Samuel b. Simi

Samuel of Sofafta

Samuel b. Sustra or Susreta

Samuel b. Suṭar

Samuel b. Yeba

Samuel b. Zadok

Samuel of Zarkonya

Samuel b. Ze'era

Samuel b. Zuṭra

Saul of Nawah

Se'oram

Shaba

Shabbethai

Shabbethai b. Marinus

Shabbethai of Saduki

Shalemya

Shalman of Be Zeluḥit

Shalman b. Levi

Shappir

Shayin

Shazbi

Shela

Shela b. Abina

Shela b. Isaac

*Shela of Kefar Tamarta

Shela Mari

Shela of Shalomya

Shemaiah

Shemaiah b. Zera

Shephatiah

Sherebiah

Shesba b. Idi b. Abin

*Sheshet

Sheshet b. Joshua

Sheshet of Ḳarṭiza

Sheshna b. Samuel

Sidor

Simeon b. Abba

Simeon b. Abishalom

Simeon b. Aibu

Simeon b. Bisna

Simeon b. Hillel b. Pazi

Simeon b. Ḥiyya

Simeon b. Ḥiyya of Ḥuza

Simeon b. Jacob of Tyrus

*Simeon b. Jakim

Simeon b. Jasina

*Simeon b. Jehozadak

Simeon b. Jonah

Simeon b. Joshua

Simeon the Judge

Simeon b. Ḥana or Sana

Simeon b. Ḳarsena

Simeon b. Ḳisma

*Simeon b. Laḳish

Simeon b. Levi

Simeon b. Me'asha

Simeon b. Narshiyah

Simeon b. Nezira

*Simeon b. Pazi

Simeon the Pious

Simeon the Scribe

Simeon of Shiloh

Simeon b. Simeon

Simeon b. Taḥlifa

Simeon of Tospata

*Simeon b. Yannai

Simeon b. Zachariah

Simeon b. Zebid

Simeon b. Zirud

Simi b. Abba

Simi b. Ada

Simi b. Ashi

Simi of Birtadesḥore

Simi b. Hezekiah

Simi b. Ḥiyya

Simi of Maḥaza

Simi of Nehardea

Simi b. 'Uḳba

Simi Ze'era

Sisai

Surḥab b. Papa

Ṭabala

*Ṭabi

*Ṭabi (grandson of Mar Ṭabi)

Ṭabi, Mar

Ṭabut

Ṭabut Rishba

*Ṭyabyome (B)

Ṭyabyome (P)

Ṭyabyome II. (B)

Taddai

Taḥlifa

Taḥlifa (father-in-law of Abbahu)

Taḥlifa (father-in-law of Aḥa)

Taḥlifa (father of Huna)

Taḥlifa b. Abdimi

Taḥlifa b. Abimi

Taḥlifa b. Abina

Taḥlifa b. Bar Ḥana

Taḥlifa of Cæsarea

Taḥlifa b. Gazza

Taḥlifa b. Ḥisda

Taḥlifa b. Imo

Taḥlifa Ma'araba (the Palestinian)

Taḥlifa b. Samuel

Tanḥum b. Ammi

Tanḥum of Bosra

*Tanḥum b. Ḥanilai

Tanḥum b. Ḥanina

*Tanḥum b. Ḥiyya

Tanḥum b. Ḥiyya b. Abba

Tanḥum b. Ḥiyya of Kefar Agin

Tanḥum b. Ḥiyya of Kefar Ako

*Tanḥum b. Jeremiah

*Tanḥuma b. Abba

*Tanḥuma b. Judah

Tanḥum of Parwad

Tanḥum b. Skolastiḳai

Tanḥuma

Tarayya

Ṭayyefa Simmuḳa

Tobi b. Isaac

Tobi b. Ḳaṭṭina

Tobi b. Kisna

Tobi b. Mattanah

Tobi b. Nehemiah

Totai

'Uḳba b. Abba

'Uḳba b. Ḥama

'Uḳba b. Ḥiyya

'Uḳba, Mar

'Uḳba of Meshan

'Uḳba of Pashronya

'Uḳba, Rabbana

Ulla b. Abba

Ulla b. Asht

Ulla of Biri

Ulla of Cæsarea

Ulla Ḥazzana

Ulla b. Ḥinena

Ulla. b. Idi

Ulla b. Ilai

Ulla b. Ishmael

Ulla b. Menasya

Ulla b. Rab

Ulla Rabbah

Uzziel (grandson of Uzziel Rabbah)

Uzziel b. Neḥunya

*Yannai

*Yannai (grandson of Yannai the Elder)

Yannai b. Ammi

Yannai of Cappadocia

*Yannai b. Ishmael

Yannai b. Naḥmani

Yannai Ze'era (the little one)

Yeba (father-in-law of Ashyan)

Yeba Saba (the old one)

Yemar

Yemar of Difte

Yemar b. Ḥashwai

Yemar Saba (the old one)

Yemar b. Shazbi

Yemar b. Shelmia

*Yudan (father of Mattaniah)

Yudan b. Aibu

Yudan of Cappadocia

*Yudan of Magdala

*Yudan b. Phila

Yudan of Saknin

Yudan b. Shakli

Zabda

Zabda (father of Abba)

*Zabda b. Levi

*Zakkai

Zakkai of Alexandria

*Zakkai the Butcher (Ṭabbaḥa)

Zakkai the Great (Rabbah)

Zakkai of Kabul

*Zakkai of Shab

*Zebid

Zebid of Nehardea

Zebid b. Osha'ya

Zebulun b. Don (B)

Zechariah

Zechariah (son-in-law of Joshua b. Levi)

*Ze'era (P)

Ze'era b. Abbahu (P)

Ze'era b. Ḥama (P)

Ze'era b. Ḥanina (P)

Ze'era or Zera (B and P)

Zemina (P)

*Zerika

Zerika (brother-in-law of Zerikan)

Zerikan

Zuga

Zuga or Zawwa of Adiabene

Zuṭi

Zuṭra b. Huna

Zuṭra, Mar (the colleague of Ashi)

Zuṭra, Mar (the great)

Zuṭra, Mar (the pious)

Zuṭra b. Mari

Zuṭra b. Naḥman

Zuṭra b. Rishba

Zuṭra b. Samuel

Zuṭra b. Tobia

Zuṭra b. Ze'era[Babylonian and Palestinian amoraim are distinguished respectively by the initials B and P in parentheses; the figures indicate the centuries to which they belonged. For amoraim whose names are preceded by the dagger-sign, see also Jew. Encyc. s.v. Yiẓḥaḳ.]J. L. G.


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