Robert Brody, professor of Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a leading authority on Talmudic and Geonic literature, surveys in this academic monograph the cultural and intellectual world of the Geonim, the heads of Babylonia's ancient rabbinic academies, including Saadia ben Joseph al-Fayyumi's tenure as Gaon of Sura beginning in 928, his conflict with the exilarch David ben Zakkai, and his wider place in shaping medieval Jewish culture.
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An academic monograph published by Yale University Press, written by the professor of Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, tier 1, matching the tier the map gives comparable peer reviewed academic scholarship, used here for the wider context of Saadia's gaonate at Sura, corroborated by Encyclopaedia Judaica's own biographical account, already live on the map. NotesThe standard modern scholarly survey in English of the Geonic period, by the professor of Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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AuthorRobert Brody
PublisherYale University Press
Publication Year1998
Source Typeacademic monograph
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