-
authority waned towards the end of the
Geonic period and the
Pumbedita Gaonate gained ascendancy (Louis
Ginzberg in Geonica). The
Geonim officiated, in...
-
Israel geonim as
their spiritual leaders. The
history of the
Palestinian gaonate was
revealed in do****ents
discovered in the
Cairo Geniza in 1896. Sp****...
-
Abraham ben
Aaron (Hebrew: אברהם בן אהרן) was a head of the
Palestinian Gaonate in the 10th century.
Moshe Gil ****umes that this
Abraham was the son of...
-
Nehemiah Rav
Avdimi Nehemiah ben
Hushiel (615–617) The Land of
Israel Gaonate (Hebrew: ישיבת ארץ ישראל, romanץized:
Yeshivat Eretz Israel) was the chief...
-
Jehoshaphat and Semah, who both
functioned as
leaders of the
Palestinian Gaonate. "Josiah ben Saul ben Anan",
Jewish Virtual Library Gil,
Moshe (1992),...
- the
Palestinian Gaonate served as the
chief Talmudic academy and
central legalistic body of the
Jewish community in Palestine. The
Gaonate moved from Tiberias...
-
Ezrun (Hebrew: עזרון) was a head of the
Palestinian Gaonate in the 10th century.
According to a
fragment found in the
Cairo Genizah (T.S. 312.82), as...
- side, of
prominent families,
several members of
which had
occupied the
gaonate. His
father was
Hananiah ben R. Yehudai, also a gaon.
Sherira claimed descent...
- also
recorded as Azariah, was the head of the
remnant of the
Palestinian Gaonate in
Damascus in the
second half of the 12th century. Ezra was the son of...
-
alternatively Matzliach, was a Gaon and the
leader of the
Palestinian Gaonate in Fustat, the prin****l
Talmudic academy and
central legalistic body of...
