Natan ha-Babli (historian)

Natan ben Isaac ha-Kohen ha-Babli , the Babylonian , was a Jewish historian of the 10th century AD.

Life

Natan ha-Babli probably lived in Baghdad . He wrote a work on the Jews of Baghdad ( Akhbār Baghdād ), known almost exclusively from Hebrew fragments, originally written in Arabic , and describes the rabbinical academies of Surah and Pumbedita , functions and privileges of the exile . The fragments also contain details of the controversies that took place within Babylonian Judaism in the 10th century. A first fragment, in which the ceremonies at the installation of an exile is described, was published in Hebrew as early as 1566.

expenditure

• A. Neubauer: Medieval Jewish Chronicles and Chronological Notes , Volume 2, Oxford 1895, pp. 77-88
• Alexander Harkavy in: Festschrift for A. Berliner , Berlin 1903, pp. 34–43
• Israel Friedlaender : The Arabic Original of the Report of R. Nathan Hababli . In: The Jewish Quarterly Review 17/4 (1905), pp. 747-761

literature

• Moshe Gil : Jews in Islamic countries in the Middle Ages . Leiden, Boston 2004, ISBN 900413882X .
• Abraham David:  Nathan ben Isaac Ha-Kohen Ha-Bavli. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica . 2nd Edition. Volume 15, Detroit / New York a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-0-02-865943-5 , p. 13 (English).
• Nathan ben Isaak Hakohen Habawli. In: Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Vol. IV, Orient Printer, Chernivtsi 1930.
• Ismar Elbogen : NATAN HABABLI. In: Georg Herlitz (Hrsg.): Jüdisches Lexikon . Volume IV, 1, Jewish publishing house, Berlin 1927.
• M. Seligsohn et al .:  Nathan ben Isaac Ha-Kohen Hababli. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.