“Rabbis in Zoroastrian Fire Temples”

Lecture by Simcha Gross based on his book, “Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity,” which explores how life under the Persian and Zoroastrian Sasanian Empire affected Jews, the rabbis responsible for the Babylonian Talmud and the social, cultural, and historical dimensions of their intertwined lives. Presented by the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies at Stanford University. Online.