Person
Mar Rav Yosef bar Shila מר רב יוסף בר שילא
head of Pumbedita from 4558
Mar Rav Yosef bar Shila took Pumbedita in 4558 (798) and held it six years.
Six years he held Pumbedita; neither a word of his nor an incident about him has come down.
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.