Person · 4130–4185 AM · 370 CE — 425 CE
Rabban Gamaliel VI—the last patriarch רבן גמליאל השישי
with him the patriarchate in the Land of Israel came to an end
The date of the decree differs by three days: 17 or 20 October 415. By the Theodosian Code the edict of 426 turned the patriarchal tax, which the communities of the dispersion sent to the Land of Israel, into an imperial one. So ended an office that had run from Hillel the Elder for four hundred years.
One separate testimony to him comes from another world: the Roman medical writer Marcellus set down a remedy for disease of the spleen "lately proved by tested experiments by the patriarch Gamaliel".
On the timeline
4185 · 425 CEThe end of the Patriarchate: an office descending from Hillel is cut off4198 · 438 CEThe Theodosian Code: the standing of the Jews put into law
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Documents of the period
- The Theodosian Code: the decree of 415 and the edict of 426 — the stripping of the patriarchal powers and the turning of the patriarchal tax into an imperial one
Scholarship
- The Jewish Encyclopedia (1906) — the years, the circumstances of the decree, and the end of the patriarchate
Basis: Talmud and midrash.