person · P0389
Rav Chiya bar Ashi רב חייא בר אשי
Personal attendant-student of Rav (second generation, Bavel) who testifies about his teacher's practice in the first person: "many times I stood before Rav". The printed text titles him both רב and רבי; both spellings are one person here.
I. Who
- Hebrew
- רב חייא בר אשי
- Era
- amoraim
- Generation
- A2
- Received the mesorah from
- Rav
- Teachers
- Rav
II. When
- Traditional
- fl. c. 3980–4050 AM (schematic)
- Academic
- c. 220–290 CE
- Lifespan (traditional)
- ≈75 years
- Precision
- approximate
V. How do we know
| Claim | Evidence | Confidence | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Many times I stood before Rav" — זימנין סגיאין הוה קאימנא קמיה דרב — his own recurring first-person testimony of attendance on Rav. | rabbinic | ★★★★★ | |
| The chain אמר רב חייא בר אשי אמר רב appears 48 times across the Bavli in this atlas's mining, with a smaller Shmuel channel (6). | rabbinic | ★★★★★ | |
| No source dates Rav Chiya bar Ashi directly; the AM span shown is a schematic reconstruction anchored to Rav's generation, on whom he attended.
Schematic generational placement, not an attested date. A dated attestation, if one can be verified, should supersede this.
|
reconstruction | ★★☆☆☆ |