An edition of A prince without a kingdom
(2012)
A prince without a kingdom
the Exilarch in the Sasanian era
by Geoffrey Herman
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Table of 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.
Edition Notes
Revised thesis (doctoral)--Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-383) and index.
Includes passages in Hebrew.
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