Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity

AvSimcha Gross

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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From the image offered by the Babylonian Talmud, Jewish elites were deeply embedded within the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE). The Talmud is replete with stories and discussions that feature Sasanian kings, Zoroastrian magi, fire temples, imperial administrators, Sasanian laws, Persian customs, and more quotidian details of Jewish life. Yet, in the scholarly literature on the Babylonian Talmud and the Jews of Babylonia , the Sasanian Empire has served as a backdrop to a decidedly parochial Jewish story, having little if any direct impact on Babylonian Jewish life and especially the rabbis. Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity advances a radically different understanding of Babylonian Jewish history and Sasanian rule. Building upon recent scholarship, Simcha Gross portrays a more immanent model of Sasanian rule, within and against which Jews invariably positioned and defined themselves. Babylonian Jews realized their traditions, teachings, and social position within the political, social, religious, and cultural conditions generated by Sasanian rule.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-06-19
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:583 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:358
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009280501

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Forntidens historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Judendom inom Filosofi och religion

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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.

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'Simcha Gross's brilliant new book.' Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, Jewish Review of Books

Innehållsförteckning

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.