THE PROFESSIONALIZATION OF THE RABBINATE
32. Shapur II tried to promote the Persian religion of fire worship by offering taxexemptions. For a more comprehensive study of this phenomenon, see I. Epstein , in the Soncino edition of the Talmud (note#11 to Nedarim 62b), which refers to S. Funk, Die Juden in Babylonien II , p. 3.
33. Deuteronomy 4.24. 34. B. Baba Batra 22a. 35. Ibid., 22a.
37. Deuteronomy 4.14. 38. Ibid., 4.5.
39. B. Nedarim 36b-37a. 40. Deuteronomy 4.5. 41. J.T. Nedarim 4.3.
42. Ibid., 4.3.
43. B. Ketubot 105a. The gosrei gezerot(those who enacted gezerot) and the dayyanei gezerot(the gezerah judges) are both mentioned in this important
assage. The fact that judges received a salary has stirred academic speculation.
phraim Urbach in The Halakhah, Its Sources and Development(Massada, 1986, pp. 72ff.) maintains that the gezerah judges"were appointed in order to preserve traditions(ancient gezerot and court verdicts) and therefore they drew their salaries from the shekel-chamber...." others feel that this was done to permit the judges to serve on a full-time basis.
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