sages of the Pumbeditha school, primarily, Abbaye, Rava and Rav Pappa and their disciples. A principal use of this form of analysis was to reject" no" that were proposed. The" now" that is the approach being an attempt to take various schools of thought and fit them into one group as we showed in the body of the dissertation is the work of the Eretz Israel school( Tiberian) headed by Rabbi Yochanan. Prior to this we virtually do not find systematizing proposals of this type. These traditions appear in the third- fourth generation in Babylon, and are proposed in the Pumbeditha school. It is here that the analysis method of rejecting both aspects of a proposed method is developed. In addition we pointed out the differences between the Israeli and the Babylonian schools in their attitude to the" now". This form of rejection is then completely original, and we surmise that this is from Abbaye, as we cannot conceive that a later editor would add'11" 8"(" on the other hand") only to the words of the sages of the Pumbeditha school from the fourth generation on. In addition we indicated that in the Israeli school they saw in the" now" complete identification in the opinions of the different sages, so much so that they used it to bring supporting evidence from it. The Babylonian school, however, saw it as a collection of opinions with some overlap and nothing more. We also showed that this form of rejection was not used in Babylon to reject accepted rulings but only for theoretical analysis.
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