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Roman persecutions of Jews -- Kings, priests, and sages -- Jewish sources of the Second Temple Period in rabbinic compilations of late antiquity -- Anxious rabbis and mocking non-rabbis -- Idolatry in late antique Babylonia -- Persian persecutions of Jews -- Josephus in Sasanian Babylonia