Person
Mar Rav Hilai bar Chananya מר רב הילאי בר חנניה
head of Sura from 4585
Mar Rav Hilai bar Chananya took Sura in 4585 (825).
And that is all that is known of him: no responsum, no account, not even a year of death. A name, a seat, a year.
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.