He also entertained the idea of amplifying Otho's Historia Doctorum Mishnicorum by adding the Amoraim.
According to the Encyclopaedia Judaica, "Other amoraim of the same name, some with and some without appellations, who lived in the third and fourth centuries and whom it is difficult to identify, are referred to in the Talmudic sources."
He led the Talmudical academy in Nehardea (also called Naresh, or Nareš), close to Sura, during the fifth generation of Babylonian amoraim.
:Rav Huna bar Yehuda says in the name of Rabbi Ammi: "one should always complete the reading of one's weekly Torah portion with the congregation, twice from the mikra (i.e. Torah) and once from the Targum."
This passage (Ḳid. 33b) says that two amoraim differed in their interpretations of the words "and they looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle" (Ex. xxxiii. 8).