=Exeter=, the Council of, anti-Jewish decrees of, =3=, 645.
“=Exilarch=, the, Feast of,” court at the Exilarch’s, =3=, 95.
=Exilarchate=, the, on an equality with the Patriarchate, =2=, 454. extinction of, a condition of the advent of the Messiah, =2=, 457. in abeyance after Kobad’s persecutions, =3=, 4. from 589 to 640, =3=, 10. restored to power by Bostanaï, =3=, 10. hereditary in the house of Bostanaï, =3=, 94, 137. as viewed by the Jews of distant lands, =3=, 100. co-extensive with the Ommiyyade Caliphate, =3=, 100. dependent on the Gaonate, =3=, 137. contests for, =3=, 155, 439. decay of, =3=, 183, 188. attachment to, =3=, 185-6. during Saadiah’s Gaonate, =3=, 193-4. end of, =3=, 201-2. revived in the twelfth century, =3=, 369, 428. extent of, =3=, 428-9. revived in the thirteenth century, =3=, 627.
=Exilarchs=, the (Princes of the Captivity, Resh-Galutha), leaders of the Jews in the East, =2=, 393. political chiefs of the Babylonian Jews, =2=, 508. vassals of Persia, =2=, 508. royal position of, =2=, 508-9. descendants of David, =2=, 509. supreme judges of the Jewish community, =2=, 509; =3=, 93. revenues of, =2=, 509-10; =3=, 96. homage paid to, =2=, 510, 515, 606-7. religious ignorance of, =2=, 510. political and spiritual authority of, =2=, 511. devoted to the study of the Law, =2=, 544. appoint judges, =2=, 547; =3=, 98, 428. barbarity of, in the time of the Amoraim, =2=, 554. exercise civil and judicial functions, =3=, 89. depose the principals of the Babylonian academies, =3=, 91. history of, dark, =3=, 92. office of, political, =3=, 93. installation of, =3=, 94-5. annual court at the house of, =3=, 95. authority of, lessened by the Karaite schism, =3=, 137. power of, reduced, =3=, 177, 183. hold public assemblies at Pumbeditha, =3=, 177.
=Exilarchs=, the, list of: Achiya, Bostanaï, Chananya (Achunaï), Chaninaï, Chasdaï, Chiskiya, Daniel, son of Solomon (Chasdaï?), David of Mosul, David ben Daniel, David ben Judah, David ben Zaccaï, Huna, Huna-Mari, Josiah Hassan, Judah ben David, Judah ben David, son of Kafnaï, Mar-Kahana, Mar-Ukban, Mar-Zutra I, Mar-Zutra II, Nathan, Nehemia, Solomon, Solomon (Chasdaï?), Yishaï ben Chiskiya, Zaccaï ben Achunaï.
=Exile=, the Babylonian, described, =5=, 720-1. _See_ Babylonia, the Judæans of.