A Prince without a Kingdom

Geoffrey Herman

doi:10.1628/978-3-16-152138-6

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Geoffrey Herman

A Prince without a Kingdom

The Exilarch in the Sasanian Era

2012. 430 pages.

Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism (TSAJ) 150

DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-152138-6

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Geoffrey Herman examines the Exilarchal leadership of Babylonian Jewry in the Sasanian Era (224-651 CE). A source-critical and literary-historical study of the primary rabbinic evidence, it also integrates comparative sources from the fields of Iranian and Eastern Christian studies.

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Geoffrey Herman Born 1967; 2006 PhD at Hebrew University in Jerusalem; taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, and at Cornell University; Postdocs at Harvard University and at the University of Geneva; fellow at Research Consortium "Dynamics in the History of Religions" at Ruhr University, Bochum; currently lectures in ancient Jewish history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.