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The Late Geonic Period: Four Major Figures
🕍 The end of the Geonic period, about which we have the most information, includes four extraordinary figures who profoundly shaped the worlds of the…
Aug 29, 2023
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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New Genres of Geonic Creativity
🕍 The Geonim of Babylonia created important new genres of writing which profoundly influenced, the Rishonim, including the Sheiltot, the early halachic…
Aug 22, 2023
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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The Geonic Yeshivot and the Exilarchate
🕍 Today we explore the functioning of the great academies of Bavel and of the office of the Reish Galuta (Exilarch), principally based on the account…
Aug 15, 2023
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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From Nasi to Gaon: Leadership in Byzantine Eretz Yisrael
🕍 We continue in our Geonim series with a closer look at the leadership situation in the Land of Israel, which had its own geonim, as well as…
Jul 25, 2023
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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The Geonim: Series Introduction
🕍 Today we kick off a five-part series on the Geonim, exploring these crucial, yet yet at times obscure, years from c. 500-c. 1000, an era that laid…
Jul 18, 2023
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
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