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188 Ashima

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Sura retained the prominence conferred on it by Ashi for several centuries and only during the last two centuries of the Gaonic period did Pumbedita again become its rival. Ashi's son Tabyomi— always spoken of as " Mar (Master), the sou of Rab

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ous confusion has been made by some of the later even by Abraham ibn Ezra who mistake the idol Ashima for the Samaritan appellation for God, Ashima meaning "the Name"; just as the Jews are accustomed to speak of the Deity as

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