Kahana (II)
220 CE–295 CE · Amoraim · Pum Nahara
Rav Kahana II was a Babylonian scholar of the mid-third century CE. A student of the great Rav, he was a second-generation Amora—one of many voices whose give-and-take fills the Babylonian Talmud, the sprawling record of how these sages argued the law into shape. His name appears frequently throughout the Bavli, especially in matters of ritual law and talmudic reasoning, where his disputes with other sages helped shape later Jewish law.
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Pum NaharaTalmudic-era settlement
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About Pum Nahara
Pum Nahara was a settlement in Talmudic-era Babylonia (central Iraq) that hosted a rabbinic academy in the amoraic period. It is associated in the Talmud with sages including Rav Kahana. Its precise location is not securely identified.
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Kahana (II)’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Jewish world
- R. Yochanan bar Nappacha· 180 CE–279 CE
- Shimon ben Lakish· 200 CE–275 CE
- Rav Huna (head of Sura)· 216 CE–297 CE
- Chisda bar Atta (head of Sura)· 217 CE–309 CE
- Rav Sheshet (the blind)· 220 CE–295 CE
- Rav Yehuda bar Yechezkel (founder of Pumbedita)· 220 CE–299 CE
- Eleazar ben Pedat· 220 CE–279 CE
- Rabbah bar Avuha· 230 CE–290 CE
- Ulla bar Yishmael· 230 CE–295 CE
- Yose bar Chanina· 230 CE–295 CE
- Rav Hamnuna· 230 CE–300 CE
- Ami bar Natan· 230 CE–300 CE
- Shimon bar Abba· 230 CE–300 CE
- Nachman bar Yaakov (son-in-law of Resh Galuta)· 230 CE–320 CE
- Shmuel bar Nachmani· 230 CE–320 CE
- Rabbi Assi· 230 CE–320 CE
- Abbahu of Caesarea· 240 CE–320 CE
- Yitzchak Nappacha (the smith)· 240 CE–320 CE
- Chiyya bar Abba (disciple of R. Yochanan)· 240 CE–320 CE
- Rabbah bar Rav Huna· 245 CE–322 CE
- Levi (the EY midrashic storyteller)· 250 CE–320 CE
- Yehuda Nesia II (Patriarch)· 250 CE–320 CE
- Rav Safra· 250 CE–320 CE
- Rabbi Helbo· 250 CE–320 CE
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