Description: "With a new preface and an updated bibliography"--Title page.
Review Quotes:
"This book offers a superb introduction to the study of the Geonic period, long-awaited especially in the Anglo-phone world. . . . Brody's book . . . provides an important survey of the current status of scholarship concerning the Geonim. . . . For students both of rabbinic literature and post-rabbinic Jewish culture this book will be indispensable."--Charlotte Fonrobert, Hebrew Studies