independent Jewish prince

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The ruler of a so-called independent Jewish state (descendants of the tribes of Dan, Zebulun, Asher and Naphtali) in the Mountains of Naisabur; according to Benjamin, this ruler was Rabbi Joseph Amarkala the Levite

Names

Hebrew: נשיא = NŚYʾ 1
Hebrew: שר = ŚR 2

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela1-2	before c.1170	c.1173	13th C	1907

Sources

1prince: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 83 [Hebrew with English translation].
2prince: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 86 [Hebrew with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Liran Yadgar, “independent Jewish prince” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/practice/892.

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Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML and matching, Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
Liran Yadgar: abstract and Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue

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