@Book{717621766,
author="Herman, Geoffrey
and Herman, Geoffrey",
title="prince without a kingdom: the exilarch in the Sasanian era",
series="Texts and studies in ancient Judaism 150",
year="2012",
publisher="Mohr Siebeck",
address="T{\"u}bingen",
keywords="Jews; Iraq; Babylonia; Politics and government; Exilarchate",
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 interpretationThe 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 : {\v{S}}abuhr II;The fifth century;From Xusr{\={o}} 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 hierarchiesThe 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 beltThe 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 : summaryLocating 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 HụzestanEconomic 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 collectionThe 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 lawPride and criticism.Prince, Nasi, Davidic dynasty ;Persian noble practices and the Exilarchate;Persian language;Gahw{\={a}}rag : 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 ExilarchateDining 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 IsraelConclusionAppendix I : geonic readings on the Talmudic Exilarchate I : SOZAppendix II : geonic readings on the Talmudic Exilarchate II : IRSGAppendix III : Sherira Gaon on the ExilarchateAppendix IV : Lists of ExilarchsAppendix V : Sasanian kingsAppendix VI : Bishops of Seleucia-Ctesiphon (Catholicoi)BibliographyIndex of sourcesIndex of toponymsMiddle-Persian termsIndex of namesIndex of subjects.",
note="Geoffrey Herman",
note="Zugl. {\"u}berarb. und erw. Fassung von: Jerusalem, Univ., Diss., 2005",
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isbn="9783161506062",
language="English"
}