exilarch

ruler

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Jewish history

  • Jerusalem: Western Wall, Temple Mount
    In Judaism: Babylonia (200–650)

    …in approximately 100 ce an exilarch, or “head of the [Jews in] exile”—who claimed more direct Davidic descent than the Palestinian patriarch—to rule over the Jews as a quasi-prince. About 220, two Babylonian disciples of Judah ha-Nasi, Abba Arika (known as Rav) and Samuel bar Abba, began to propagate the…

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