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Notes

1. Israel Politics in Sassanian Iran - Jewish Self Government in Talmudic Times, New York , 1986 and earlier studies.

2. Genesis 49.10, as quoted in B. Sanhedrin 5a.

3. Iggeret Rav Sherira Gaon,(ed.) B.M. Lewin, Haifa , 1921.

4. B. Gittin 67b; B. Avodah Zarah 38b; B. Shabbat 58a, 121b.

S. B. Sanhedrin 38a; B. Shabbat 54b.

6. Henry Malter , Saadia Gaon His Life and Works, Philadelphia , 1921, pp. 96ff.

7. Ibid., p.100.

8. Heinrich Graetz , Geschichte V, Leipzig , 1905-1906, Note 12#7; Malter , op. cit., p. 104.

9. Moritz Gudemann , Geschichte des Erzieungswesen, Vol. 1, p. 14; Irving A. Agus , The Heroic Age of Franco-German Jewry, pp. 256ff.

10. Tosafot to B. Shebuot 29b; B. Makkot 11b.

11. Tosafot to B. Ketubot 49b; Semag II 53a.

12. Irving A. Agus , Meir of Rothenburg , Philadelphia , 1947, p.

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