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• ḤIYYA — (also called Rabbah, the Great ; end of the second century C.E.), tanna (BM 5a) during the transition period from the tannaim to the amoraim. Ḥiyya was born at Kafri, near Sura in Babylonia (Sanh. 5a). According to one talmudic tradition his… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism