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Ahunai ben Haninai, 31st Exilarch Huna Mar II MP (c.508 - c.560)

Mar Ahunai ben Zutra beni David was Exilarch (Exilarch [Hebrew: ראש גלות Rosh Galut, Aramaic: ריש גלותא Reish Galuta lit. "head of the exile", Greek: Æchmalotarcha], referring to the leaders of the Dia...

Hananya "Bustenai" ben Haninai, Exilarch & Gaon of Pumbeditha MP (c.589 - 638)

was the first exilarch under Arabian rule; he flourished about the middle of the seventh century. He was the son of the exilarch Hananiah. Hai Gaon, in "Sha'are Ẓedeḳ," p. 3a, seems to identify Bostana...

Hananya "Dayan of the Gate" ben Haninai al-Nahr Paqod (ben Haninai bar Adai), Gaon of Sura MP (c.660 - c.736)

GAON of SURA from 689 to 694 He was previously designated as kohen, but see discussion:- For him to be a descendant of a Bostnai from the paternal line, he cannot be neither kohen nor levi because Bost...

Naḥman 'Mar Rabiya Moronai' ben Haninai, Gaon of Pumbeditha MP (655 - c.719)

Nehemiah ben Haninai bar Adai MP (c.725 - c.786)

Bostanai (c.618 - c.670)

BUSTANAI BEN ḤANINAI (c. 618–670), the first exilarch in Babylonia after the Arab conquest. According to legend, toward the end of Persian rule in Babylonia the king decreed that all the descendants of...

Exilarch & Gaon of Pumbeditha Hananya "Bustenai" Ben Haninai (c.589 - c.638)