'''Sherira bar HananiahHanina''' ([[Hebrew]]: שרירא בר חנינא) more commonly known as '''Sherira Gaon''' ([[Hebrew]]: שרירא גאון; c. 906-c. 1006) was the [[Gaon (Hebrew)|Gaon]] of the [[Academy of Pumbeditha]]. He was one of the most prominent [[Geonim]] of his period, and the father of [[Hai Gaon]], who succeeded him as Gaon. He wrote the ''[[Iggeret Rav Sherira Gaon]]'' ("[The] Epistle of Rav Sherira Gaon"), a comprehensive history of the composition of the [[Talmud]].<ref>Trans. Nosson Dovid Rabinowich,The Iggeres of Rav Sherira Gaon (Jerusalem: Moznaim, 1988) {{oclc|20044324}}, p. xx</ref><ref name="Daud">Abraham ibn Daud, "Sefer ha-Ḳabbalah," in [[Adolf Neubauer]], "Medieval Jewish Chronicles" (Oxford, 1887) {{ISBN|1-145-09335-3}}, i. 66-67</ref>
