To browse Academia. Discusses reasons for a Persian-Jewish alliance and later a Judeo-Arab alliance. In an attempt to reconcile contemporary sources, an account is given of Babylonian Jewish Exilarch Nechemiah ben Hushiel, his brother Shallum Salman Farsi and nephew Yakov Ka'b Al-Ahbar who played pivotal roles in these conquests.
Proposes that the twelve men who went to Mecca to meet with the Prophet were Jewish refugees from Edessa, by way of Medina. This book is concerned with a relatively unknown period in Jewish history β The rebellion by the Jews of Israel against the Byzantine Empire that started in C. The book is based on Jewish and Christian sources and even some Moslem sources from the period of the rebellion.
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It also uses recent archaeological evidence. The book discusses the background of the rebellion. It covers the cooperation between the Jews of Israel with the Persian armies and the Persian-Jewish troops within these armies, who had been fighting the Byzantines at the same time and earlier.
It focuses on the subsequent Jewish rule of Jerusalem C. It also discusses the aftermath of the rebellion and examines possible reasons for the lack of its coverage in modern Jewish writings.
The aim of this article is to show that there is an alternative way to reconstruct the Muslim conquest of Roman Levant, which is actually militarily more plausible than the current consensus view among historians. These include apocalyptic visions in prose, exegetical works midrashim , and synagogal poetry piyyut.
