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Geonim

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Teshuvot HaGeonim
Collection of responsa published from a manuscript discovered in Chevron in the 19th century.
Toratan shel Rishonim
Collection of responsa and a range of other geonic writings, published from manuscripts in the 19th-century.
Epistle of Rav Sherira Gaon
Influential 10th-century letter detailing the development of rabbinic literature from the Mishnah to the Geonim.
Musafia Teshuvot HaGeonim
Collection of responsa and talmudic commentary published from manuscript in the 19th century.
Teshuvot HaGeonim (Harkavy)
Teshuvot HaGeonim (Shaarei Teshuva)

About Geonim

The Geonim were leading rabbis and legal authorities who lived approximately in the 6th through early 11th centuries, in the period following the completion of the Talmud. Many were the heads of two central academies of Jewish learning in Babylon (present-day Iraq), and received questions from Jews in neighboring areas as well as from more distant regions on talmudic interpretation and legal disputes. Their responses were written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic and could range in length from a sentence to a large book.

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