Ashi

Ashi (born ad 352—died c. 427) was a preeminent Babylonian amora, or interpreter of the Mishna, the legal compilation that was the basis of the Talmud, the authoritative rabbinical compendium. Ashi was head of the Jewish Academy at Sura, Babylonia, and was one of two chief editors who fixed the canon of the Babylonian Talmud. Under Ashi’s leadership the Academy, which had been closed since 309, was revived, and the gigantic task of collating scattered...