Years Covered: 502-590

Our last glimpse at the Menorah, our first glimpse of Jewish life in Western Europe.

CAST OF CHARACTERS

Jews

• Mar Zutra II — X
• Mar Zutra III — X
• Dhu Nuwas — X
• Theodosius
• Priscus — X
• Hanan of Isikiya

Samaritans

• Julianus ben Sabbar — X
• Justasus — X
• Baba Rabbah — X
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Persians

• Kavad I — X
• Khosrow I — X
• Hormizd IV — X
• Bahram Chobin
• Khosrow II

Romans

• Belisarius — X
• Justinian I — X
• Justin II — X
• Maurice

Greeks

• Procopius of Caesarea — X

Others

• Simon of Beth Arsham — X
• Gregory of Tours
• Avitus
• Philip
• Chilperic — X
• Phatir — X

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Years covered: 500-530

A Christian King attempts to sodomize a Jewish claimant, and the Jewish claimant takes the kingship, and revenge.

Cast of Characters

• Mar Zutra II — X
• Mar Zutra III
• Dhu Nuwas / Yusuf son of Sharhabil — X

• Kavad I
• Mazdak — X
• Khosrow I

• Anastasius I — X
• Justin I — X

• Procopius of Caesarea

• Elesbaan / Elesbaas / Kaleb of Aksum
• Arethas — X
• Ruhm — X
• Simeon / Simon of Beth Arsham
• Dhu Shanatir — X

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Years covered: 428-499

The end of the Western Roman Empire coincides with the end of Jewish ascendance in Persia, and the fall is going to be hard.

Cast of characters

• Rav Yemar X
• Ravina II X
• Mar bar Rav Ashi X
• Moses of Crete
• Huna IV X
• Huna V X
• Rabbah Jose
• Mar Zutra II

• Theodosius II X
• Aelia Pulcheria X
• Valentinian III X
• Eudocia X
• Licinia Eudoxia X
• Flavius Aetius X
• Petronius Maximus X
• Romulus Augustulus
• Zeno X
• Augustine of Hippo X

• Bahram V X
• Yazdegerd II X
• Hormizd III X
• Peroz I X
• Balash X
• Kavad I
• Sukhra X
• Mazdak
• Jamasp

• Socrates Scholasticus X
• Cyril of Alexandria X

• Attila the Hun X
• Genseric X
• Huneric X
• Odoacer X
• Clovis I

• Yegishe X

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Years covered: 389-427

The Jews of Babylon achieve unprecedented acceptance from the Sassanian Empire, just as the Jews of the Roman Empire have their acceptance revoked.

Cast of Characters

• Rav Ashi X
• Judah IV
• Gamliel VI X
• Shushandakt / Shushandakht
• Huna bar Nathan
• Amemar
• Mar Zutra X

• Bahram IV X
• Yazdegerd I X
• Shapur IV X
• Bahram V

• Theodosius I X
• Honorius X
• Arcadius X
• Theodosius II
• Anthemius
• Ambrose X
• Augustine of Hippo
• Orestes
• Aelia Eudoxia X

• Theophilus of Alexandria X
• Hypatia of Alexandria X
• John Chrysostom X
• Epiphanius of Salamis X
• Cyril of Alexandria
• Socrates Scholasticus
• Heirax

• Butheric X
• Arbogast X
• Stilicho X
• Alaric X

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Years covered: 353-388

A plan to rebuild the Temple comes from an unlikley source, just as Judaism becomes more...portable.

Cast of Characters

• Hillel II — X
• Rav Ashi
• Rav Kahana III
• Gamliel V
• Rabbi Hilkiya

• Shapur II — X

• Constantius II — X
• Constantius Gallus — X
• Julian — X
• Alypius of Antioch — X
• Jovian — X
• Valentinian I — X
• Valens — X
• Theodosius I
• Ambrose of Milan
• Jerome of Stridon

• John Chrysostom
• Ammianus Marcellinus

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Years covered: 314-352

The creation of the portable Jewish calendar ushers in the shift to Babylonia as the centre of the Jewish world. But its a world on the move, as the centre of the Roman world moves out of Italy.

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Years covered: 280-314

Jews

• Rava
• Abaye
• Rav Huna ✗
• Rabbah bar Nahmani ✗
• Abaye's foster mother
• Rav Chisda
• Rabbi Abbahu
• Gamliel IV
• Judah III (?)

Persians

• Bahram II ✗
• Kartir
• Narseh ✗
• Hormizd II ✗
• Shapur

Romans

• Carus ✗
• Carinus ✗
• Numerian ✗
• Diocletian ✗
• Maximian x
• Galerius ✗
• Constantius ✗
• Licinius
• Maximinus Daza ✗
• Constantine
• Maxentius ✗

Greeks

• Eusebius of Caesarea

Other

• Ifra Hormizd

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Years Covered: 236-279

The law of the land is the law. But when two Rabbis disagree, how do you determine the law? Sometimes when two Rabbis disagree, the results can be tragic.

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Years covered: 202-235

Rabbis who were Doctors, Rabbis who were Astronomers, Rabbis who were Gladiators. Rabbi Judah haNasi leaves the Mishna, but that's not the end of the conversation.Jews

• Judah haNasi (Yehuda HaNasi) ✗
• Rav Shila ✗
• Gamliel ben Judah (Gamliel III) ✗
• Yohanan bar Nappaha (Rabbi Yohanan)
• Abba bar Ibo / Abba Arikha / Rav
• Rabbi Hiyya
• Ilfa
• Shimon ben Lakish (Resh Lakish)
• Yohanan's sister
• Shmuel of Nehardea
• Shmuel's father (Abba bar Abba)
• Levi ben Sisi
• Judah Nesiah (Judah II)
• Hoshiah Rabbah

Romans

• Caracalla ✗
• Julia Domna ✗
• Flavius Maternianus ✗
• Macrinus ✗
• Diadumenian ✗
• Elagabalus ✗
• Severus Alexander ✗
• Julia Mamaea ✗
• Julia Maesa
• "Antoninus" (associate of Judah haNasi)
• Cassius Dio

Persians

• Artabanus IV ✗
• Ardashir I

Greeks

• Origen

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