Nehemiah ben Hushiel

Nehemiah ben Hushiel

Nehemiah ben Hushiel was the son of the Jewish Exilarch, placed as the symbolic leader of Jewish troops within Sassanid army in 608 CE, according to Jewish sources. This army participated in Khasrau II's campaign in the Levant. The joint military effort of Sassanid troops and local Jewish militias resulted in a short lived Jewish authonomy. Nehemiah is related as a Messianic leader in some Jewish writings of the middle ages.[1]

Nehemiah's Jewish army and the Persians, commanded by Shahrbaraz, were joined by the wealthy Jewish leader Benjamin of Tiberias and a force of Tiberian Jews. The combined forces successfully captured Jerusalem in 614 CE. Nehemiah had then been appointed the ruler of Jerusalem. He began the work of making arrangements of the rebuilding of the Temple, and sorting out genealogies to established a new High Priesthood.

However, the Christian population in the city remained strong and after only three years a riot occurred, in which a mob of the young Christians united and killed Nehemiah ben Hushiel and his "council of the righteous". They dragged their bodies through the street and dumped them over the city wall.

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References

  1. ^ The Persian conquest of Jerusalem in 614CE compared with Islamic conquest of 638CE By Ben Abrahamson and Joseph Katz

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