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Meshershaya bar Paḳod

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

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Babylonian amora of the sixth and last generation; lived in Sura. In the persecution of Jews by Perozes (Firuz), King of Persia, Meshershaya was imprisoned and executed together with Amemar bar Mar Yanḳaï and the exilarch Huna Mar (469-470).

Bibliography:
  • Sherira Gaon, Responsa, ed. Neubauer, A 34;
  • Heilprin, Seder ha-Dorot, 1889, 1:168.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Meshershaya bar Paḳod'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​m/meshershaya-bar-paa3od.html. 1901.
 
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