R. Hanina was second and third generation Amora Sage of the Land of Israel, a pupil of Rabbi Yannai and R. Yochanan bar Nafcha, brother of the famous Amora sage R. Hoshaiah.
Midrash Iyyob or Midrash to Job is an aggadic midrash that is no longer extant.
Rav Assi, a Kohen, was a Jewish Amora sage of Babylon, of the first generation of the Amora era. He originated from Hutzal, that was located nearby Nehardea of Babylonia. He was a "Fellow Student" of R. Abba Arika ("Rav") and a teacher of R. Judah ben Ezekiel.
Rav Kahana (II) was an Amora, active in Babylon and in the Land of Israel, and of the second generation of the Amora sages era. He was a disciple of R. Abba Arika ("Rav").
Rabbi Ilai was an Amora of the Land of Israel, of the third generation of the Amora sages era, living at the end of the 3rd century and the beginning of the 4th. He was a disciple of R. Yochanan bar Nafcha and R. Shimon ben Lakish. Among his disciples, one can find the leading figures of the Amora fourth generation, such as Rav Jonah, Rav Zera, Ravin and more.
Joseph b. Hama was a Jewish Amora sage of Babylon, of the third generation of the Amora era. He was a disciple of R. Sheshet. However, The Talmud also cites statements that he delivered on the authority of Rav Nachman bar Yaakov.
For the Amora sages of the Land of Israel of the third Amoraic generation, see Hanina b. Papi or Hanina ben Pappa.
For another Babylonian Amora sage of the fifth generation, see Rav Papa.
Amemar was a Jewish Amora sage of Babylon, of the fifth and sixth generation of the Amora era. He is accounted as one of the most prominent sages of his generation and the Headman to his town's sages, Nehardea. Among his disciples, one may find the most prominent sages of the sixth generation of the Amoraim, among them: Rav Ashi, the head of the academy of Sura, who became Amemar's "Fellow Student", and R. Huna b. Nathan, the Exilarch. Among his colleagues: Mar Zutra and Rav Ashi, and many times the Talmud records all three of them together. Initially, his hometown was Nehardea, but later he moved to Mahuza, where he also served as a Dayan, religious Judge.
Rav Zevid was an Amora of Babylon of the fourth and fifth generation of the Amora era. He was a disciple of Rava and a "Bar-Plugta"-opponent of Rav Papa. According to the Iggeret Rav Sherira Gaon, he served as head of the academy of Pumbedita.
Rafram (II) was an Amora of Babylon of the seventh generation of the Amora era. He was a disciple of Rav Ashi, and a colleague of Ravina II. He headed the Pumbedita academy for ten years until his death on 443.
Rav Kahana IV (Hebrew: (רב כהנא was a Jewish Amora sage of Babylon, of the fifth and sixth generation of the Amora sages. He was the cousin of R. Ashi and served as the Dean of the Pumbedita Academy Yeshiva from 395 until 412.
R. Jeremiah was a Tanna sage of the last generation and an Amora sage of the first generation, active in the Land of Israel during the transition period between the Tannaic and Amora sages eras.
R. Abin (I) was a Jewish Amora sage of the Land of Israel of the third generation of the Amoraic era. He was one of R. Yochanan bar Nafcha's most prominent pupils. As a young man he even managed to study under Judah ha-Nasi, and had delivered statements in his name. However, he acquired most of his Torah knowelege from his Teacher par excellence, R. Yochanan bar Nafcha. Abin's sayings are mentioned many times in the Babylon Talmud, mainly as an Halkhaic inquiry (Hebrew :בעי), and as an Amora of the Land of Israel he is cited frequently in the Jerusalem Talmud. His son was Jose ben Abin.
Hiyya b. Abin Naggara was a Jewish Babylonian Amora sage of the fourth generation of the Amoraic era. He was the son of R. Abin Naggara, whose livelihood was a carpenter, and used to observe all the commandments related to lighting a candle. In that conjunction, it is storied that Rav Huna was accustomed frequently to pass the door of R. Abin the carpenter, and when seeing the observamce of Shabbat candles he remarked that "Two great men will issue hence", since it is stated that "He who habitually practises [the lighting of] the lamp will possess scholarly sons", and indeed he had Hiyya and Idi b. Abin Naggara.
Rav Jeremiah b. Abba was a second generation Jewish Babylonian Amora sage. He was the pupil of the famous Amora R. Abba Arika. He is cited many times in the Jerusalem Talmud, where he is mentioned simply as R. Jeremiah, without his patronymic name. Some are in the opinion that he was also called R. Jeremiah Rabbah.
R. Hiyya b. Joseph was an Amora sage of Babylon of the second generation (3rd-century) of the Amoraic era. He studied under the most prominent sages of the Amoraim, R. Abba Arika ("Rav"), and Samuel of Nehardea, and later made Aliyah to the Land of Israel and studied under R. Yochanan bar Nafcha and Shimon ben Lakish.
Pedat ben Eleazar was a Jewish Talmudist, known as an amora, in the Land of Israel, of the 4th generation. He was the pupil of his father, Rabbi Eleazar ben Pedat and the assistant lecturer ("amora") of R. Assi. If the latter asked him to repeat any of his father's sentences, if he himself had heard them from the lips of his father, he introduced them with the words: "So says my teacher in the name of my father", but in other cases he said: "So says my teacher in the name of R. Eleazar." He transmitted also sentences in the name of his father and of R. Hoshaiah (Oshaya).
Hama bar Hanina was a Palestinian amora of the 3rd century.
