Geonica, Vol. 1: The Geonim and Their Halakic Writings (Classic Reprint) Book

I. THE GAON ATE. Palestine and Babylonia. "'The staff shall not depart from Judah'-the Exil-avehs who govern the people with the ruler's rod; ' nor a lawgiver from between his feet1-the descendants of Hillel who instruct the people in the Torah." This brief, vivid characterisation of the two groat Jewish institutions of the Talmudic time, by a Jewish sage living at the beginning of the second centuryremained do loss true in the centuries that followed. In spite of friction now and again between the later Patriarchs and thTable of Contents CONTENTS; THE GEONIM L-TJIE G AON ATE; paor; Palestine and Babylonia i; Salient Features of the Gaonate 6; Friction between the Exilarchatc and the Gaonate of; Furabedita 14; The Language of Nathan ha-Babli's Report 22; Nathan ha-Babli Identified 29; Nathan ha-Babli the Source for the Two Report* about the; Babylonian Academies 34; The Supremacy of Sura 37; The Title Gaon originally the Prerogative of Sura 46; The Origin of the Gaonate under the Mohammedan Rulers 52; Nathan ha-Babli'B Account of Ukba 55; The Last Conflict between the Exilarchate and the Punabedita; Gaonate 62; The Predecessor of Soadia 66; The Chronology of the Geonim 69; II-THE HALAKIC LITERATURE OF THE GEONIM; Halakah the Main Feature of Geonic Literature 72; The Impulse to Geonic Literary Activity 73; Rabbi Aha of Shabha 75; The SJtciltot and the Tcnishalmi 78; Plan and Purpose of the Shegltot 86; Rabbi Jehudai the Earliest Halakic Writer in Geonic TRead More