Person
Rav Moshe Kahana bar Yaakov רב משה כהנא בר יעקב
head of Sura from 4592
Rav Moshe Kahana took Sura in 4592 (832) and held it thirteen years.
Thirteen years—and not one responsum, not one account. The list kept the name and the years, nothing more.
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.