A prince without a kingdom
Subtitle: the Exilarch in the Sasanian era
By: Geoffrey Herman
Series: Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum -- 150 = -- Texts and studies in ancient Judaism -- 150,; Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum -- 150.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9783161506062
Subjects: Jews; Politics and government; Exilarchate
Notes: Revised thesis (doctoral)--Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2005.

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

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