The Sages of the Talmud

מר עוקבא בר חמא Mar Ukva bar Chama

Amora of Babylonia · 4th generation (c. 320–350 CE) — named 35 times across 14 tractates of the Bavli.

Amora of Babylonia · 4th generation×35 named in the Bavli14 tractates

Mar Ukva bar Chama, of the fourth Babylonian generation — a different man from the Mar Ukva of the first generation, whom the tradition identifies with the exilarch. The Bavli writes him with both מר and רב.

He is named some thirty-five times across fourteen tractates, heaviest by far in Bava Batra, and the rest in Avodah Zarah, Chullin and Bava Metzia: the distribution of a sage heard in civil and commercial law. Rav Nachman and Rami bar Chama are the names he stands beside most.

Of the fourth generation.

The gematria of the name

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