“…the most important source for mapping Jewish settlement and…urban reality as a whole in Sasanian Babylonia is the Babylonian Talmud”
By far, the most important source for mapping Jewish settlement and, in a sense, urban reality as a whole in Sasanian Babylonia is the Babylonian Talmud. The dearth of any substantial late antique Jewish archaeology in Iraq, and the lack of prospects of this changing, guarantee that. What has changed is the way the sources […]continued…
“The archaeological remains in Babylonia reveal few clear markers of Jewish identity”
The archaeological remains in Babylonia reveal few clear markers of Jewish identity. In the Greek and Roman world, with their so-called epigraphic habit, plenty of inscriptions have been unearthed that attest to a Jewish presence. We find the seven-branched candelabrum and donative inscriptions by private individuals on public buildings and in burial tombs that convey […]continued…