Rabbis in Zoroastrian Fire Temples: A New History of Jews in the Sasanian Empire
Lecture by Simcha Gross, Associate Professor of Ancient Rabbinics, University of Pennsylvania
Rabbis in Zoroastrian Fire Temples: A New History of Jews in the Sasanian Empire
29 Oct 2025, 18:00 – 19:00
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Simcha Gross, PhD (Yale, 2017), specializes in ancient Jewish history, rabbinic literature in Persian/Islamic contexts, and Syriac Christianity. His work explores Sasanian imperialism’s impact on Babylonian Jews. He co-authored The History of the 'Slave of Christ and edited Jews and Syriac Christians. He teaches at Penn and previously taught at UC Irvine and Stanford.
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