Person
Rav Yosef bar Chiya רב יוסף בר חייא
head of Pumbedita from 4588
Rav Yosef bar Chiya took Pumbedita in 4588 (828).
Five years at the head of Pumbedita—and not one responsum, not one account, not one dispute. Only a name and 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.