One of the Jewish sages of Yemen appends the date of the Halakhot Gedolot's composition by Simeon Kayyara, saying that the book was written in the 1,054th year of the Seleucid Era, being equivalent to 4,503 anno mundi (= 743 CE).
Teshuvot ha-Ge'onim, ed. Cassel, p. 12, Berlin, 1848
- Robert Brody, The Geonim of Babylonia and the Shaping of Medieval Jewish Culture, Yale 1998
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "ḲAYYARA, SIMEON". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. Its bibliography:
- A. Epstein, in Ha-Goren, iii. 46 et seq.;
- A. Harkavy, Teshubot ha-Ge'onim, pp. xxvii., 374 et seq.;
- J.L. Rapoport, in Kerem ?emed, vi. 236;
- Schorr, in Zunz Jubelschrift (Hebr. part), pp. 127 et seq.;
- He-haluk, xii. 81 et seq.;
- Weiss, Dor, iv. 26, 32 et seq., 107, 264;
- Brüll, in his Jahrb. ix. 128 et seq.;
- Grätz, Gesch. v. 234;
- idem, in Monatsschrift, vii. 217 et seq.;
- S. T. Halberstam, ib. viii. 379 et seq., xxxi. 472 et seq.;
- I. Halevy, Dorot ha-Rishonim, iii. 200 et seq.;
- see also the bibliography of the article Yehudai Gaon.