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v e r s i t Y a b s t r ac t historians of the Patriarchate generally claim (1) that primogeniture was firmly in place at least by the time of R. Judah the Patriarch; (2) that Origen's account of meeting a Patriarch is to be ignored (unlike his other, less plausible, claims of Patriarchal power), and (3) that two Patriarchs were called Judah Nesiah. this article challenges each aspect of that consensus. By drawing on anthropological studies of other dynasties, on the practices of second-temple Jewish dynasties and on studies of the reproductive patterns of ancient families; by taking Origen's witness seriously, and by rereading talmudic material, it proposes a different understanding of the identity, sequence, and dates of third-century Patriarchs to advance the understanding of the Patriarchate's origins and to move toward refiguring the history of the Patriarchs as the history of a series of individual members of a dynasty rather than the history of an institution or an office. d e bat e con t i n u e s among historians of Jewish late antiquity over whether R. Judah the Patriarch ('Rabbi') was the founder of the Patriarchate and the Patriarchal dynasty, 1 or the successor to a Pa

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Author

Alan Appelbaum

Publisher

Journal of Jewish Studies

Published

2012

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)