Offers a radically new account that advances the modern scholarly understanding of Babylonian Jewish history and society, and of Sasanian rule. Building upon recent developments in the study of the Sasanian Empire, the book offers a more direct model of Sasanian rule, within and against which Jews invariably positioned and defined themselves.
Offers a radically new account that advances the modern scholarly understanding of Babylonian Jewish history and society, and of Sasanian rule. Building upon recent developments in the study of the Sasanian Empire, the book offers a more direct model of Sasanian rule, within and against which Jews invariably positioned and defined themselves.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Simcha Gross is Assistant Professor of Ancient Rabbinics in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Coauthor of The History of the 'Slave of Chris': From Jewish Child to Christian Martyr and co-editor of Jews and Syriac Christians, he was an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow for Assistant Professors at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; and a recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship for experienced researchers.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Toward a new history of Jews and the Sasanian Empire 1. Jewish society under Sasanian rule: from isolation to integration 2. Competing for power: Jewish elites and Sasanian culture 3. Beyond 'tolerance': the logics of Sasanian violence against Jews 4. Forgetting persecution: memory and anti-martyrdom in the Babylonian Talmud 5. Rabbis and fire temples: navigating a Zoroastrian empire 6. Kings and religion in the Talmud and in the imagination of Sasanian communities Conclusion: the Sasanian Empire from the perspective of the Jews.
Introduction: Toward a new history of Jews and the Sasanian Empire 1. Jewish society under Sasanian rule: from isolation to integration 2. Competing for power: Jewish elites and Sasanian culture 3. Beyond 'tolerance': the logics of Sasanian violence against Jews 4. Forgetting persecution: memory and anti-martyrdom in the Babylonian Talmud 5. Rabbis and fire temples: navigating a Zoroastrian empire 6. Kings and religion in the Talmud and in the imagination of Sasanian communities Conclusion: the Sasanian Empire from the perspective of the Jews.
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