Person
Mar Rav Abumai מר רב אבומאי
head of Pumbedita from 4570
Mar Rav Abumai took the head of Pumbedita in 4570 (810). The list calls him the brother of Chaninai Gaon—and so the uncle of his own predecessor.
Not one of his responsa, not one account of him has come down to us. The list gives a name, a kinship and a year, and that is the end of it.
On the timeline
4510 · 750 CEThe Flowering of the Geonic Age and the Sheiltot of Rav Achai4510 · 750 CEThe first books after the Talmud
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Sources
Rishonim
- Epistle of Rav Sherira Gaon — the list of the academy's heads by name and year
- Seder Tannaim ve-Amoraim — a list put together about 884—within this very century, the testimony of a contemporary rather than a retelling of Sherira
Basis: documents and evidence.