In the Yoma tractate of the Babylonian Talmud the name Gomer is rendered as Germania, which elsewhere in rabbinical literature was identified with Germanikia in northwestern Syria, but later became associated with Germania. Ashkenaz is linked to Scandza/Scanzia, viewed as the cradle of Germanic tribes, as early as a 6th-century gloss to the Historia Ecclesiastica of Eusebius. In the 10th-century History of Armenia of Yovhannes Drasxanakertc'i (1.15) Ashkenaz was associated with Armenia, as it was occasionally in Jewish usage, where its denotation extended at times to Adiabene, Khazaria, Crimea and areas to the east. His contemporary Saadia Gaon identified Ashkenaz with the Saquliba or Slavic territories, and such usage covered also the lands of tribes neighboring the Slavs, and Eastern and Central Europe. In modern times, Samuel Krauss identified the Biblical "Ashkenaz" with Khazaria. COUNT 5
QSN1 In which tractate of the Babylonian Talmud is the name Gomer given as Germania? ANS1 Yoma QSN2 Ashkenaz is linked to Scandza/Scanzia, which is viewed as what? ANS2 cradle of Germanic tribes QSN3 Saadia Gaon identified Ashkenaz with the Saquliba or what territories? ANS3 Slavic QSN4 Who identified Ashkenaz with the Saquliba or Slavic territories? ANS4 Saadia Gaon QSN5 Even though Gomer is rendered as Germania in the Yoma tractate of the Babylonian Talmud, in other rabbinical literature it was identified with what? ANS5 Germanikia in northwestern Syria