Gaonim

The Gaonim were the religious heads of an emancipated community.

Chapters on Jewish Literature Israel Abrahams 1891

The Gaonim were the originators or, at least, the arrangers of parts of the liturgy.

Chapters on Jewish Literature Israel Abrahams 1891

The Gaonim, as heads of the school in the Babylonian cities Sura and Pumbeditha, enjoyed far more than local authority.

Chapters on Jewish Literature Israel Abrahams 1891

Gaonim, the, heads of the Babylonian schools, 68. work of, 68-69. literary productions of, 69-71. language used by, 71.

Chapters on Jewish Literature Israel Abrahams 1891

He expended much labor and money on collecting the works of the Gaonim.

Chapters on Jewish Literature Israel Abrahams 1891

The Exilarchs possessed a princely revenue, which they devoted in part to the schools over which the Gaonim presided.

Chapters on Jewish Literature Israel Abrahams 1891

To all such enquiries the Gaonim sent responses in the form of letters, sometimes addressed to individual correspondents, sometimes to communities or groups of communities.

Chapters on Jewish Literature Israel Abrahams 1891

This position of authority, added to the world-wide repute of the two schools, gave the Gaonim an influence which extended beyond their own neighborhood.

Chapters on Jewish Literature Israel Abrahams 1891

The imperfections of study outside of Persia, again, made it essential to apply to the Gaonim for authoritative expositions of difficult passages in the Bible and the Talmud.

Chapters on Jewish Literature Israel Abrahams 1891

Hebrew, the, of the Mishnah, 29. used by the Gaonim, 71. the language of prayer, 83. influenced by Kalir, 88. translations into, 145, 146.

Chapters on Jewish Literature Israel Abrahams 1891