Talk:Geonim

message: I believe we need to address the following question: to what extent where the rulings of the Geonim followed by most communities 
of the time? Put in another way - to what extent where the Geonim marginal? If there was such a situation, what caused it
to change? What were the effects of the spread of Islam on the eventual hegemony of Rabbinic Judaism, such as we know it?
Hasdrubal 08:12, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

message: The second paragraph is word-for-word from the Jewish Encyclopedia of 1906.
There's a link to the JE at the bottom of this page. But doesn't this still count as plagiarism without an explicit cite?
Lawrence King 06:41, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The Jewish Encyclopedia is public domain. Jayjg (talk) 16:59, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarism? 

message: Paragraph One says the Geonim were active from 650 to 1250 CE.
Paragraph Two gives two start dates (589 and 609) which seem to conflict, and then two ending dates for different dynasties, both in the 1030's.
Some of these dates are errors.  Or perhaps they refer to different "dynasties" of Geonim?  Can anyone clarify this?
Lawrence King 06:54, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Encyclopedia Brittanica says c. 640-1038.  I've put a message on the Talk: page of the author of that section asking him for clarification. Jayjg (talk) 17:13, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

text: YKahn: Be bold and fix those errors. If someone disagrees, he/she will probably tell you. Don't be too careful; exceptions to this rule are intensely contested topics such as The Holocaust and Yasser Arafat. JFW | T@lk 18:24, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The 1250 date is probably correct in that it refers to how long the schools stood. The 1038 date refers to the death of Rav Hai Gaon, and the end of centricity to Halakha in Babylon. Perhaps there "era" and the "school" should be delineated better. Chacham 16:51, 22 Sep 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflicting dates 

message: The article says that the Exilarch held sway in "islamic lands". Wasn't Babalonia islamic at the time? I don't understand the point of contrasting Geonim to Exilarch. 71.240.95.179 12:55, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  islamic lands? 

message: Ha'Aretz had an article reviewing a new book by Prof. Ronnie Ellenblum: "The Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean: Climate Change and the Decline of the East, 950-1072" (Cambridge University Press, 2012) in which he apparently claims that a series of severe winters was responsible for the collapse:
"According to Ellenblum, this explains why the academies of Sura and Pumbedita − which operated in Baghdad at the time and were the most important centers for Jewish study in the east − ceased to exist in the late 1030s, and their closure brought an end to the period of the Geonim (heads of the academies).
“Some have claimed that the academies in Baghdad lost their eminence gradually,” he says, “but not too many years earlier, the head of the Jerusalem academy sent his son to study at the academy of Baghdad.” In other words, the Babylonian academy was still in its prime a few years before it closed down."
(Article in Ha'Aretz online, 6 Oct 2012, Asaf Shtull-Trauring, "The Hunger Claims", http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-holidays/sukkot/the-hunger-claims.premium-1.468500)
I haven't seen the book yet so am only quoting from the Ha'Aretz article, and not sure where to fit this in in the Wiki page (and I'd be reluctant to do so without reading the book first, rather than a review), but thought I'd bring it up on this Talk page.
BristolChris (talk) 19:35, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  reason for decline of academies 

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