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

Mar 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...

closed for about 45 years Zemah Tzedek ben Paltoi ben Isaac (Semah, Sedeq) – around 990 and around 998 Samuel ben Hofni (Hophni, ha-Kohen) (father-in-law of...

Hai, as 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...

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

as if 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...

(882/892 – 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...

"Ibn al-Dastūr, Samuel ben ʿAlī". Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World. Sklare, David Eric; Hophni, Samuel Ben (1996). Samuel Ben Ḥofni Gaon and His...

which 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...

by 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...

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

[in Hebrew] (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...

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

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...

bar Rab 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...

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

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

(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)...

ben Moses, under the title Sefer ha-Mo'adim. They are divided into eight chapters, in which Joseph discusses the arguments used by Samuel ben Ḥofni against...

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

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 Masliah, was Masliah's...

Ghiyyat of Lucena; Rabbi Nissim, the author of Sefer ha-Mafteaḥ, Rabbi Samuel ben Ḥofni, Rabbi Hananel, and Rabbi Isaac Alfasi. A certain book entitled Kitāb...

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

presented to the academy a book by Samuel ben Hofni, which she had inherited from her grandfather, the gaon Solomon ben Elijah. In 1112, the Mushtamil, the...

[in Hebrew] (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...

to 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...

American Academy for Jewish Research (1954) 'The Biblical Commentary of Samuel ben Hofni Gaon' (Mosad HaRav Kook 1978) Terminologie der Jüdischen Schriftauslegung...

(928–942) Joseph ben Jacob, Gaon (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...