From circa 500 CE to circa 656 CE
The principals and scholars of the Babylonian academies in the period immediately following that of the Amoraim. According to an old statement found in a gloss on a curious passage in the Talmud, Rabina, the principal of the Academy of Sura, was regarded as the "end of the hora'ah," i.e., as the last Amora. The activity displayed by the Saboraim is described by Sherira, in the following terms: "Afterward [i.e., after Rabina] there was probably no hora'ah [i.e., no independent decision], but there were scholars called Saboraim, who, rendered decisions similar to the hora'ah [i.e. the Talmud as left by the Amoraim], and who gave clear explanations of everything that had been left unsettled." Credit note: the passage was taken from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia.
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