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Rav Ashi

Type Figure Region Babylonia Time 352–427 Also known as Ashi

Rav Ashi (352–427 CE), head of the Sura academy for decades under Sasanian Persia, who oversaw the compilation of the core of the Babylonian Talmud.

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  1. 352–375Sura · BabyloniaBorn into a wealthy family of the Babylonian Jewish community, he received systematic Talmudic training at the Sura academy, displaying outstanding memory and editorial talent and quickly rising to prominence in the school.
  2. c. 375–427Sura · BabyloniaHe led the Sura academy for some fifty years, forming with the contemporary Pumbedita academy a dual-center pattern of Babylonian scholarship, presiding over daily scholarly assemblies and adjudicating legal disputes.
  3. c. 400–427Sura · BabyloniaHe oversaw the systematic incorporation of the sayings of successive amoraim (oral commentators) beneath the chapters of the Mishnah, forming the main structure of the Babylonian Talmud and providing the core basis for Jewish legal scholarship for the following thousand years.

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