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Title

A prince without a kingdom : the Exilarch in the Sasanian era / Geoffrey Herman.

Author

Herman, Geoffrey, 1967-

Publication

Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, c2012.

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Description

xix, 411 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ; 150 = Texts and studies in ancient Judaism ; 150, 0721-8753

Uniform Title

Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ; 150.

Subjects

• Exilarchate
• Jews > Iraq > Babylonia > Politics and government

Note

• Revised thesis (doctoral)--Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2005.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-383) and index.

Language (note)

• Includes passages in Hebrew.

Contents

Introduction. A kingdom without sources; Recovering a lost kingdom; Satrap, Feudal Prince, Tyrant, Hakham Bashi : former models of Exilarchal leadership ; The central concerns; Defining the question; Comparison and contextualization; The sources and their interpretation -- The Sasanian empire and the Exilarch. Administration and geography; The limits of the empire; Administrative geography; Babylonia and its environs ; Political history; Uprising; Wars and conquest; The fourth century : Šabuhr II; The fifth century; From Xusrō I to the last Sasanian kings ; Government and rule; Continuity and innovation; Court hierarchy ; Religion and state; Heirs to the parthians; Tolerance and intolerance; Religious hierarchies -- The origin of the Exilarchate I. The myth of Davidic descent; Scholars on Davidic origins; Theories of beginnings ; Sources for a Parthian Exilarchate; An "Exilarch" in Nisibis; Ahiya will build an altar; Close to the kingdom: Yerushalmi and Bavli : a comparison: The Bavli's story : inner-Babylonian polemic: Intertextuality in the Bavli's story: Historical conclusions; Your father's belt -- The origin of the Exilarchate II. R. Hịyya the great and the Parthian Exilarchate; Exilarch and Hargbed: The hargbed in non-Jewish sources: The hargbed in rabbinic sources; So may his seed never cease: The sources: A Bavli parallel: Two Yerushalmi traditions: The Exilarch in Palestine as anti-patriarchal polemic; The sons of R. Hịyya: Review of the Sugya: This Sugya and other Rabbinic sources: R. Hịyya's sons and Judah I: Dating the story; Behold! your rival is in Babylonia: Taxonomy of people and places: Scripture in the service of polemics ; The Sasanian/Amoraic period; Talmudic sources: The absence of the Exilarchs in tannaitic compositions: The Yerushalmi: The Bavli; Beginnings of the Persian catholicate: Legends and sources; The fourth century and Aphrahat's 14th demonstration; Beginnings of the Exilarchate : summary -- Locating the Exilarchal court. Questionable Exilarchal locations; Dasqarta de-Resh Galuta; Pumbedita; Hinei and Shilei; Sura ; Neharde'a and Mehọza; Neharde'a; Mehọza: Seleucia and Persian Christianity: The later Sasanian era; Between Neharde'a and Mehọza ; Regional authority and Reshuyot ; Babylonia and Hụzestan -- Economic power and the Exilarchate. Trade supervision and the appointment of agoranomoi; The Bavli and its relationship to the Yerushalmi; Measures in Palestine versus measures and prices in Babylonia; Was there an agoranomos in Babylonia? ; The Exilarch and seizure of the market for the sages ; Tax collection -- The Exilareh and the Rabbis. Rabbis, academies and the Exilarchate; Rabbis, Exilarchs, and rabbis for Exilarchs: Tannaim: Amoraim ; The Judicial system and the Exilarchate; Exilarchal courts; "Thus said Samuel : the law of the kingdom is the law"?: 'Uqba b. Nehemiah the Exilareh or R. Nehemiah b. Mar 'Uqban?: The period of Samuel or the period of Rava?; Persian law -- Pride and criticism. Prince, Nasi, Davidic dynasty ; Persian noble practices and the Exilarchate; Persian language; Gahwārag : a golden chair ; Tyranny and rule; A tradition of opposition to authority; Fear and intimidation; Rabbi Eleazar's cow : an anti-exilarchal Aggadic Sugya ; Rav Hịsda and the exilarchate; Ruth Rabba and the Yerushalmi; The Bavli; Rav Huna and Rav Hịsda on the Exilarchate -- Dining with the Exilarch. Responding to a dinner invitation ; Persian table etiquette; Textual variants; Parallels : 'Persian custom', the Baraita, and the Tosefta; Interpretation : between Persia and Israel -- Conclusion -- Appendix I : geonic readings on the Talmudic Exilarchate I : SOZ -- Appendix II : geonic readings on the Talmudic Exilarchate II : IRSG -- Appendix III : Sherira Gaon on the Exilarchate -- Appendix IV : Lists of Exilarchs -- Appendix V : Sasanian kings -- Appendix VI : Bishops of Seleucia-Ctesiphon (Catholicoi) -- Bibliography -- Index of sources -- Index of toponyms -- Middle-Persian terms -- Index of names -- Index of subjects.

Call Number

*PXI 13-314

ISBN

• 9783161506062 (hd. bd.)
• 3161506065 (hd. bd.)

OCLC

824351323

Author

Herman, Geoffrey, 1967-

Title

A prince without a kingdom : the Exilarch in the Sasanian era / Geoffrey Herman.

Imprint

Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, c2012.

Series

Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ; 150 = Texts and studies in ancient Judaism ; 150, 0721-8753

Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ; 150.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-383) and index.

Language

Includes passages in Hebrew.

Research Call Number

*PXI 13-314