The Sages of the Talmud

רב חנן Rav Chanan

Amora of Babylonia · 3rd generation (c. 290–320 CE) — named 89 times across 25 tractates of the Bavli.

Amora of Babylonia · 3rd generation×89 named in the Bavli25 tractates24 as a patronymicWants a person’s eye

Rav Chanan, of the third Babylonian generation, is cited some ninety times, though a large part of those occurrences are the name standing inside another sage's patronymic rather than the man himself.

More than one sage bears the name and the Bavli does not separate them; the entry is marked for review. What can be said is the setting: the Babylonian academies of the third generation, in the company of Rava, Rav and Abaye, with the mentions spread across twenty-five tractates and gathered nowhere.

More than one sage of the name.

The gematria of the name

Computed from the consonantal letters of רב חנן by the same engine that runs every search. This is the value of a NAME — no word of the Talmud is valued anywhere in this app.

Where he is namedPremium

Premium opens every place a sage is named — his folios tractate by tractate, each one a link into the daf, and the chains of who quotes him and whom he quotes.

Talmud Bavli, Wikisource edition, via Sefaria — CC BY-SA 4.0. A mention is an occurrence of a name-form the roster lists, found by longest match — not a scholarly attribution census; the index says what that means in full.