Aḥa Of Shabḥa

Aḥa Of Shabḥa (born c. 680, probably at Shabḥa, near Basra, Iraq—died c. 752) was a prominent Babylonian Talmudist who is the first rabbinical writer known to history after the close of the Talmud. Aḥa’s Sheʾeltot (“Questions,” or “Theses”), published in Venice in 1546, was an attempt to codify and explicate materials contained in the Babylonian Talmud. Written in Aramaic and unique in its organization, the text connects decisions of the Oral Law with those...