Intro II: Decline and Fall of the Geonic Empire

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The Rishonim

Shmuel

16 episodes

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In-depth discussions of the "Rishonim" and their books, the Medieval rabbinic scholars who transmitted Torah learning from the eleventh to fifteenth centuries. A bit of history, a bit of bibliography, but a lot of Torah. For more info and resources see https://sites.google.com/view/rishonim/

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Intro II: Decline and Fall of the Geonic Empire

The Rishonim

1 hour 18 minutes 3 seconds

2 years ago

Intro II: Decline and Fall of the Geonic Empire

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This episode will discuss:

The Geonim as heads of an intellectual empire
The uneven but inexorable decline of the Geonic hegemony
Periodization: how do we know when an era is over?
How Rishonim came to replace the Geonim
The story of “the four captives”
The city of Kairouan and its scholars
Two “founders’ fathers”: R. Hushiel, father of R. Hananel, and R. Yaakov, father of R. Nissim Gaon