This is part of a 2024 Association for Jewish Studies panel celebrating the publication of Gross, Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity (Cambridge Press, 2024). Read the full forum here.I noted the first four essays in the series here and links. [Internal reference now corrected.]... The larger question that I will try to answer in this presentation is where, if at all, the early Manichaeans fit within the immanent model of imperial power that Simcha has so carefully excavated in his book. ...
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