Tuesday, June 22, 2021

There was a Jewish Sasanian queen?

BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Exilarchal Propaganda and Zoroastrians in Tenth- to Eleventh-Century Baghdad. Notice of an article by Simcha Gross in the current issue of the Journal of the American Oriental Society. Everything but the abstract and the first page of the article are behind a subscription wall.

The text in question dates to the tenth or eleventh century, but it claims to recount events from late antiquity.

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