Considerations on an Aspect of Jewish Culture under theSasanians: The Matter of Jewish Sigillography

摘要

In this compact volume, Daniel M. Friedenberg has gathered a group of stamp seals to illuminate the culture of the Jews who lived under Sasanian rule (224-651 c.E.). This clearly is a work of love and will stand as a contribution to our knowledge of this minority group at a significant time in its history, when the rabbinical schools that flourished in' Babylonia produced the collection of law cases and norms for the Jewish community, the Babylonian Talmud. The book also illustrates the challenge inherent in describing the cul-ture of the Jews in this period living in a Zoroastrian-dominated society