Palestinian Gaonate

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Palestinian Gaonate

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{{Short description|Jewish legalistic body}}
{{Short description|Jewish legalistic body}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}
The '''Palestinian Gaonate''' (Hebrew: ישיבת ארץ ישראל) was the chief [[Talmudic academies in Syria Palaestina|talmudic academy in Syria Palaestina]] and the central legalistic body of the Palestinian Jewish community during the middle of the ninth century, or even earlier, until its demise in the 11th century. It competed with the [[talmudic academies in Babylonia]] ([[Lower Mesopotamia]]) to support the growing [[golah|diasporic communities]].{{cite book|author=[[Jeffrey L. Rubenstein]]|title=Rabbinic stories|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W_dPR1tTIEwC&pg=PA89|year=2002|publisher=Paulist Press|isbn=978-0-8091-0533-5|page=89}} The Egyptian and German Jews particularly regarded the [[Palestine (region)|Palestinian]] [[geonim]] as their spiritual leaders.{{cite book|author=Isaac Landman|title=The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia ...: an authoritative and popular presentation of Jews and Judaism since the earliest times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T5wYAAAAIAAJ|year=1942|publisher=The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, inc.|page=72}}
The '''Eretz Yisrael Gaonate''' (Hebrew: ישיבת ארץ ישראל) was the chief [[Talmudic academies in Syria Palaestina|talmudic academy in Syria Palaestina]] and the central legalistic body of the Palestinian Jewish community during the middle of the ninth century, or even earlier, until its demise in the 11th century. It competed with the [[talmudic academies in Babylonia]] ([[Lower Mesopotamia]]) to support the growing [[golah|diasporic communities]].{{cite book|author=[[Jeffrey L. Rubenstein]]|title=Rabbinic stories|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W_dPR1tTIEwC&pg=PA89|year=2002|publisher=Paulist Press|isbn=978-0-8091-0533-5|page=89}} The Egyptian and German Jews particularly regarded the [[Palestine (region)|Palestinian]] [[geonim]] as their spiritual leaders.{{cite book|author=Isaac Landman|title=The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia ...: an authoritative and popular presentation of Jews and Judaism since the earliest times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T5wYAAAAIAAJ|year=1942|publisher=The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, inc.|page=72}}


The history of the Palestinian gaonate was revealed in documents discovered in the [[Cairo Geniza]] in 1896. Sparse information is available on the Geonim before the middle of the ninth century. The extant material consists essentially of a list in ''[[Seder Olam Zutta]]'' relating all the geonim to [[Mar Zutra]].Elizur, S. ''[http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=1562699 A contribution to the history of the gaonate in the eighth century : An elegy for the head of the academy in Palestine]'', Siyyon 1999, vol. 64, no3, pp. 311-348, [Note(s): XXI (39 p.)]. Historical Society of Israel, Jerusalem, ISRAEL (1935).
The history of the Palestinian gaonate was revealed in documents discovered in the [[Cairo Geniza]] in 1896. Sparse information is available on the Geonim before the middle of the ninth century. The extant material consists essentially of a list in ''[[Seder Olam Zutta]]'' relating all the geonim to [[Mar Zutra]].Elizur, S. ''[http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=1562699 A contribution to the history of the gaonate in the eighth century : An elegy for the head of the academy in Palestine]'', Siyyon 1999, vol. 64, no3, pp. 311-348, [Note(s): XXI (39 p.)]. Historical Society of Israel, Jerusalem, ISRAEL (1935).
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