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'' of the ancient

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. Gamaliel came into office around the year 400. On October 20, 415, an edict issued by the Emperors

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and

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stripped Gamaliel of his rank of honorary prefect. This decree also banned him from building new synagogues, adjudicating disputes between

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, converting non-Jews to Judaism, and owning Christian slaves. Gamaliel probably died in 425, as the

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mentions an edict from the year 426, which transformed the patriarch's tax into an imperial tax after the death of the patriarch. Theodosius did not allow the appointment of a successor and in 429 terminated the Jewish patriarchate. Gamliel appears to have been a physician.

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, a medical writer of the fifth century, mentioned that "for the spleen there is a special remedy which was recently demonstrated by the patriarch Gamaliel on the basis of approved experiments." van der Horst 2002: 27

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