Person
Rav Kimoi bar Ashi רב קימוי בר אשי
head of Sura from 4589
Rav Kimoi bar Ashi took Sura in 4589 (829). Brother of Rav Tzadok bar Ashi, who had held the same seat six years earlier.
Of the man himself not a line survives beyond that: no responsum, no account.
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.