Huna ben Nathan, Mar Huna IV, 24th Exilarch

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Huna ben Nathan, Mar Huna IV, 24th Exilarch

Spanish: Ben Yosef, Mar Huna IV, 24th Exilarch
Also Known As: "Mar bar Rav Ashi"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Babylon
Death: 442 (42-51)
Babylon (בבילון)
Immediate Family:

Son of Nathan bar Abba Mari, 21st Exilarch Nathan II
Husband of Wife #1 ben Nathan, Mar Huna IV and Wife #2 ben Nathan, Mar Huna IV
Father of Rabeina II "Sof hora'a" Rav Rav Huna Avina (רב אבינא בר רב הונא); Mar ben Huna and Havah bat Mar Huna IV

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About Huna ben Nathan, Mar Huna IV, 24th Exilarch

Abba was succeeded first by his son Nathan and then by another son, Mar Kahana. The latter's son Huna is then mentioned as successor, being the fourth exilarch of that name; he died in 441, according to a trustworthy source, the "Seder Tannaim wa-Amoraim." Hence he was a contemporary of Ashi, the great master of Sura, who died in 427. In the Talmud, however, Huna b. Nathan is mentioned as Ashi's contemporary, and according to Sherira it was he who was Mar Kahana's successor, a statement which is also confirmed by the Talmud (Zeb. 19a). The statement of Seder 'Olam Zuṭa ought perhaps to be emended, since Huna was probably not the son of Mar Kahana, but the son of the latter's elder brother Nathan.

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Also mentioned in Abarbanel Family Scroll – undated handwritten manuscript from the collection of the late Rabbi Shmuel Gorr, held by Chaim Freedman.

Reference was made to “Elef Margaliot” 1993, Meir Wunder.


source: Huna ben Nathan, Mar Huna IV, 24th Exilarch

Abba was succeeded first by his son Nathan and then by another son, Mar Kahana. The latter's son Huna is then mentioned as successor, being the fourth exilarch of that name; he died in 441, according to a trustworthy source, the "Seder Tannaim wa-Amoraim." Hence he was a contemporary of Ashi, the great master of Sura, who died in 427. In the Talmud, however, Huna b. Nathan is mentioned as Ashi's contemporary, and according to Sherira it was he who was Mar Kahana's successor, a statement which is also confirmed by the Talmud (Zeb. 19a). The statement of Seder 'Olam Zuṭa ought perhaps to be emended, since Huna was probably not the son of Mar Kahana, but the son of the latter's elder brother Nathan.

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Also mentioned in Abarbanel Family Scroll – undated handwritten manuscript from the collection of the late Rabbi Shmuel Gorr, held by Chaim Freedman.

Reference was made to “Elef Margaliot” 1993, Meir Wunder.

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Huna ben Nathan, Mar Huna IV, 24th Exilarch's Timeline

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395
Babylon
415
415
430
430
Tepe Sura (טפה סורה), Chamchamal, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq (עיראק)
442
442
Age 47
Babylon (בבילון)
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