- Hamnuna Saba
- (fl. 3rd cent)Babylonian amora. He was a pupil of Rav and succeeded him as head of the academy at Sura.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.
Hamnuna Saba
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