Hophni (Hebrew: חָפְנִי, Modern: Ḥofnī, Tiberian: Ḥop̄nī) and Phinehas or Phineas (Hebrew: פִּינְחָס, Modern: Pīnḥas, Tiberian: Pīnəḥās) were the two...

Samuel ben Hofni (Hebrew: שמואל בן חפני; died 1034; abbreviation: Hebrew: הרשב״ח "The Rashbaḥ") was the gaon of Sura Academy in Mesopotamia ("Babylonia")...

(2019). "The Bible as History: Sa'adia Gaon, Yefet ben 'Eli, Samuel ben Ḥofni, and Maimonides on the Genealogy of Esau and the Kingdom of Edom (Genesis...

Rabbi Menahem Azariah da Fano and a second from the 10th century Samuel ben Hofni which was recently published from his Judeo-Arabic writings after having...

Rab Mar, who assumed office in 689. The last gaon of Sura was Samuel ben Ḥofni, who died in 1034 CE; the last gaon of Pumbedita was Hezekiah Gaon, who...

942) Zemah ben Hayyim (Gaon 889–895) Sherira Gaon (906–1006) Samuel ben Hofni (died 1034) Hai Gaon (939–1038) A honorific title given to a few leading...

politician and poet Salim ibn Mustafad, Mirdasid rebel leader Samuel ben Hofni, Jewish rabbi and writer Norwich, John (1991). Byzantium: the Apogee, pp...

they really had entered them. Contrary to his father-in-law, Samuel ben Hofni, gaon of Sura Academy, he followed former scholars in deeming it possible...

Chanan, who assumed office in 609. The last gaon of Sura was Samuel ben Hofni, who died in 1034; the last gaon of Pumbedita was Hezekiah Gaon, who was...

Paltoi ben Isaac (Semah, Sedeq) – around 990 and around 998 Samuel ben Hofni (Hophni, ha-Kohen) (father-in-law of Hai Gaon) – around 998 and around 1012...

full strings that Schachter follows based on the opinion of Samuel ben Hofni. Besides the ritual uses of tekhelet, the colour blue plays various roles...

of singers of Yemenite-Jewish descent – Shlomo Cohen, Sarah Cohen, and Hofni, Pini, and Vardina Cohen. Cohen started to sing when he was a child and...

well as between him and the then-gaon in the Land of Israel, Samuel ben Hofni. He died of injuries following a fall when the bimah in the Córdoba Synagogue...

Rab Mar, who assumed office in 609. The last gaon of Sura was Samuel ben Hofni, who died in 1034; the last gaon of Pumbedita was Hezekiah Gaon, who was...

written in an epistle to Hasdai ibn Shaprut. Some state that Samuel ben Hofni was the last Sura Gaon, although in his commentaries Judah al-Madari includes...

daughter, Alma'ah, appears in a colophon of a copy of a work of Samuel ben Hofni. Mann conjectures that the Gaon of Damascus Abraham ben Mazhir, who succeeded...

politician and poet Salim ibn Mustafad, Mirdasid rebel leader Samuel ben Hofni, Jewish rabbi and writer 1035 April 13 – Herbert I, French nobleman (approximate...

lecturers to earn a doctorate at a South African University included Dr. Hofni Joubert (in the late fifties), Dr. Izak J. van Zyl (in the seventies), with...

Karaites: Saadia Gaon Hai ben Sherira David ibn Merwan al-Mukkamas Samuel ben Hofni Jewish Kalam was adopted by the Rabbanite academies of Kairouan, Fustat...

Islamic World. Sklare, David Eric; Hophni, Samuel Ben (1996). Samuel Ben Ḥofni Gaon and His Cultural World: Texts and Studies. BRILL. p. 83. ISBN 978-90-04-10302-3...

Geniza documents, that the Baraita of the 32 Rules was written by Shemuel b. Hofni Gaon (d. 1013) as part of the introduction to his commentary to the Torah...

(complete list) – Samuel ben Hofni, Gaon (c.998–c.1012) Dosa ben Saadia Gaon, Gaon (1012–1018) Israel ha-Kohen ben Samuel ben Hofni, Gaon (1018–1033) Religion...

gaon. A daughter of Maṣliaḥ presented to the academy a book by Samuel ben Hofni, which she had inherited from her grandfather, the gaon Solomon ben Elijah...

1980 Kohav Hashahar Elias 1982 Dead End Street 1983 Nurit II 1984 Kasach Hofni's father 1987 Ha-Muvtal Batito 1988 Mis'chakim Ba'Horef 1989 Abba Ganuv II...

authorship is confused with R. Hai Gaon. Sklare, David Eric (1996). Samuel Ben Ḥofni Gaon and His Cultural World. BRILL. p. 71. ISBN 9789004103023. Montefiore...

11th century (although later revised), since it is cited by Samuel ben Hofni, Nissim Gaon, and other early sources. A manuscript of this midrash is in...

eight chapters, in which Joseph discusses the arguments used by Samuel ben Ḥofni against the Karaites regarding the neomenia and the celebration of the Feast...

al-Andalus. Gaonim who embraced Bahshamiyya Mu'tazila included Samuel ben Hofni Gaon who was familiar with the works of Ibn Khallâd and Abû 'Abd Allâh al-Basrî...

(2019). "The Bible as History: Sa'adia Gaon, Yefet ben 'Eli, Samuel ben Ḥofni, and Maimonides on the Genealogy of Esau and the Kingdom of Edom (Genesis...

(930) Zemah Tzedek ben Paltoi ben Isaac, Gaon (c.990–c.998) Samuel ben Hofni, Gaon (c.998–c.1012) Aaron ben Meïr, Nasi (early tenth century) Religion...