Israel's politics in Sasanian Iran : Jewish self-government in talmudic times /

Israel's politics in Sasanian Iran : Jewish self-government in talmudic times /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Neusner, Jacob, 1932-2016.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Imprint:	Lanham, MD : University Press of America, [1986]
Series:	Studies in Judaism.
Subjects:	Talmudic period, 10-425 To 640 Jews > Iraq > Babylonia > History. Exilarchate. Judaism > History > Talmudic period, 10-425. Judaism. History. Jews. Iran > History > To 640. Iran. Babylonia > Ethnic relations. Iraq.

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Summary:	This book surveys the references to a Jewish government in writings concerning Babylonian Jewry in late antiquity. It draws together the diverse sources that tell stories about the Jewish administration of its minority in the region. Most of these derive from the Babylonian Talmud, the writings of the sages, or rabbis, who served as clerks in the Jewish court-government of the Jewish nation in the Iranian empire. This volume presents in condensed form the pertinent chapters of the former series History of the Jews in Babylonia originally published by E.J. Brill. Co-published with Studies in Judaism.
Item Description:	"The major portion of this text originally appeared in the series A history of the Jews in Babylonia II-V"--Verso t.p.
Physical Description:	xii, 190 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	0819157252 0819157260
Author Notes:	Jacob Neusner was born in Hartford, Connecticut on July 28, 1932. He received a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard University in 1953. He studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, where he was ordained a Conservative rabbi and received a master's degree in Hebrew letters in 1960. He also received a doctorate in religion from Columbia University. He taught at Dartmouth College, Brown University, and the University of South Florida before joining the religion department at Bard College in 1994. He retired from there in 2014. He was a religious historian and one of the world's foremost scholars of Jewish rabbinical texts. He published more than 900 books during his lifetime including A Life of Yohanan ben Zakkai; The Way of Torah: An Introduction to Judaism; Judaism: The Evidence of the Mishnah; Strangers at Home: The 'Holocaust,' Zionism, and American Judaism; Translating the Classics of Judaism: In Theory and in Practice; Why There Never Was a 'Talmud of Caesarea': Saul Lieberman's Mistakes; and Judaism: An Introduction. He wrote The Bible and Us: A Priest and a Rabbi Read Scripture Together with Andrew M. Greeley and A Rabbi Talks with Jesus with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI. He also edited and translated, with others, nearly the entirety of the Jewish rabbinical texts. He died on October 8, 2016 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography)