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Gaonim

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Gaonim [Heb.,=excellencies], title given to the heads of the Jewish academies at Sura and Pumbedita in Babylonia immediately following the period of the Saboraim until the middle of the 11th cent. Thereafter the title was adopted by the heads of the Palestinian academies; later it was used as an honorific title to indicate a great scholar. The Gaonim asserted the primacy of the Babylonian Talmud over the Palestinian Talmud and contributed to the standardization of Jewish law and liturgy. The greatest Gaon at Sura was Saadia ben Joseph al-Fayumi . Of those who held office at Pumbedita,... Read more

Saboraim
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... scholars of the Babylonian academies in the period (6th-7th cent. AD) immediately following the Amoraim and preceding that of the Gaonim . Little is known about them. Gaonic sources indicate that the Saboraim did not make new additions to the law, but further explained ... Read more

Berekhiah ben Natronai ha-Nakdan
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... Mazref (tr. by Sir Herman Gollancz, The Ethical Treatises of Berachya, 1902) is a summary of the ethical views of Saadia and several other Gaonim . Author not available, BEREKHIAH BEN NATRONAI HA-NAKDAN. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008 Read more

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