Baba Rabba

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Baba II Rabba (Samaritan Aramaic: ࠁࠢࠁࠢࠀ ࠓࠠࠁࠠࠄ, romanized: Bābā Råbbå, Samaritan Hebrew: ࠁࠢࠁࠢࠀ ࠄࠣࠂࠟࠃࠅࠫࠋ, romanized: Bābā ʾagā̊dōl lit. 'Baba the Grea'), was a notable Samaritan High Priest. He is believed to have lived during the late third and early fourth centuries; Jeffrey Cohen puts his birth at 288 and his death at 328.^[1]

The son of High Priest Nethanel III, Baba Rabba was probably born in Kiryat Hagga, now Hajjah, Palestine in the West Bank.^[2] Little is known about his life. According to later Samaritan works, he was a religious reformer, and with the scholar Marqah, he helped codify Samaritan liturgy and worship. He appears to have connections with the Roman authorities. He may have exercised some temporal jurisdiction over the Samaritan community, which seems relatively autonomous during this period. One chronicle places his death at 362 in Constantinople.^{[citation needed]} Baba is also remembered for his actions against Byzantine sanctions on the Samaritan community, such as resisting the ban on circumcision imposed on the Samaritans, reopening and building brand new synagogues throughout Samaria, and administering the country amid its rebellion against the Romans. Per Samaritan chronology, he lived in the "eighth period".^{[citation needed]}