Person
Mar Rav Yeshayahu ha-Levi bar Abba מר רב ישעיה הלוי בר אבא
head of Pumbedita from 4556
Mar Rav Yeshayahu ha-Levi took Pumbedita in 4556 (796). He is a Levite—the standing is marked in the list, and that is no small thing: in the chain of academy heads Kohanim and Levites are named apart.
Of his two years as Gaon nothing survives beyond the entry: 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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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.