Shushandukht
Shushandukht (
Jewish wife of Yazdegerd I, the Sasanian emperor from 399-420, and mother of Bahram V, his successor. She was also said to be the daughter of the Exilarch (Middle Persian rēš-galūdag) Huna bar Nathan.[1][2] Shushandukht reputedly created the Jewish neighborhood of Jouybareh in Isfahan[3] and also established Jewish colonies in the cities of Susa and Shushtar in what is now Khuzestan province, Iran at the north of the Persian Gulf. The Iranologist Ernst Herzfeld (1879–1948) speculated that the Tomb of Esther and Mordechai in the city of Hamadan might be the tomb of Shushandukht.[4]
The narrative of a Jewish queen enhanced the life of
Babylonian Talmud recounts that the Exilarch Huna bar Nathan interacted with Yazdegerd.[6]
No daughter or Jewish empress is mentioned.
Iranian intermezzo", as a way to bolster the royal claims of local rulers.[7]
References
- ^ "Shushandukht" at Encyclopædia Iranica
- ISSN 2169-2289.
- ISBN 978-1-136-81277-4.
- ^ "Shushandukht" at Encyclopædia Iranica
- ISSN 2169-2289.
- ISBN 978-0-85771-266-0.
- ISSN 2169-2289.
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