Antiquity
Legal persecution
425-429·Galilée
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abolition of the Jewish patriarchate at the death of Gamaliel VI, then confiscation of the patriarchal tax by Theodosius II
The death of Gamaliel VI, the last patriarch, brought in 425 to an end the institution that had represented the Jews of the Empire for more than two centuries. Theodosius II did not appoint a successor, and then, in 429, had the tax that the communities of the diaspora had until then sent to the patriarch established in Galilee paid into the imperial treasury.
The decision was less an act of violence than an administrative decapitation. It deprived Judaism of a central authority recognized by the State and shifted the center of gravity of Jewish life toward the academies of Babylonia, where the redaction of the Talmud would be completed. The local assemblies of the Land of Israel continued, henceforth without a spokesperson before the emperor.
- Period :
- Antiquity
- Type :
- Persecution
- Region :
- Land of Israel
- Country :
- Terre d'Israël
*Codex Theodosianus*, livre XVI ; Amnon Linder, *The Jews in Roman Imperial Legislation* ; Lee Levine, *The Rabbinic Class of Roman Palestine*.