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In the geonic period (ca 750 – 1050), the notion that hymeneal blood may be mixed with ziva blood arose.

Female Purity (Niddah). leBeit Yoreh 2009

Cohen considers Baraita de-Niddah to be from the land of Israel from the six or seventh century (p. 108) but he also brings geonic material from tenth-century Babylonia preventing niddot from entering the synagogue.

Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography. leBeit Yoreh 2009

The second case is Rabbi Abraham ben Nathan of Lunel (Provence), Raban (~1155 – 1215), who claims that under the influence of geonic responsa, the Jews of Spain have been misled in reference to immersion.

Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography. leBeit Yoreh 2009

According to the geonic responsa because of the conflation between niddah and zavah, women must immerse in “living water” like the zav.

Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography. leBeit Yoreh 2009

These treatises from the geonic period and slightly later deal with the transition from minority to legal majority.

Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography. leBeit Yoreh 2009

The early geonic (Babylon) responsa while having a mixed attitude toward forced divorce seem to agree that stranger assault is more severe than wife assault, because the husband has control over her and not over the stranger.

Wifebeating in Jewish Tradition. 2009

Diane Kriger notes the geonic usage of “condition subsequent” in the manumission of slaves, a paradigm which may allow the introduction of conditions subsequent to marriage, before or during marriage.

Legal-Religious Status of the Married Woman. leBeit Yoreh 2009

If she can justify why he is repulsive to her (for example, that he is not a righteous person or that he wastes all his money, etc.), according to a geonic decree (dina de-metivta) the husband must return to her everything that she brought into the marriage (her dowry [nedunya]) (Shulhan Arukh, E.H. 77: 3; Isserles).

Legal-Religious Status of the Moredet (Rebellious Wife). leBeit Yoreh 2009