=Bashan=, the inhabitants of, appeal to Judas Maccabæus, =1=, 474-5. =Basilius= (850-866), emperor, tries to convert the Jews, =3=, 175-6. =Basilius=, Jewish slave-dealer, and Pope Gelasius, =3=, 29. =Basle=, the Talmud printed at, =4=, 589. Alsatian Jews escape to, =5=, 437. =Basle, the Council of=, renews the anti-Jewish measures of previous councils, =4=, 245, 248, 251, 264. excludes Jews from university degrees, =4=, 245. favors baptized Jews, =4=, 246. degrades Eugenius IV, =4=, 249, 250. decree of, concerning Jewish physicians disregarded, =4=, 407. =Basle, the Jews of=, protected from the Black Death persecutions, =4=, 106, 108. banishment of, demanded, =4=, 106-7. burnt, =4=, 107. =Basmath=, daughter of Solomon, =1=, 177. =Basnage, Jacob= (1653-1723), historian of the Jewish dispersion, =5=, 195, 593. on the persecutions of the Jews, =5=, 195-6. consults Jewish historians, =5=, 196. faults of the history by, =5=, 196-7. prejudiced, =5=, 197. importance of the history by, =5=, 197. disciples of, =5=, 197. history of, suggested by Manasseh ben Israel, =5=, 202. =Bassan, Isaiah=, teacher of Moses Chayim Luzzatto, =5=, 235. espouses Luzzatto’s cause, =5=, 238, 241. makes Luzzatto promise not to teach Kabbala, =5=, 239. has Luzzatto’s writings in safekeeping, =5=, 239. permits Luzzatto to publish Kabbalistic works, =5=, 239. =Bassora=, under the jurisdiction of the Sora academy, =3=, 98. the Mutazilist theology taught in, =3=, 147. the Gaon of Sora at, =3=, 202. the Jews of, in the twelfth century, =3=, 437. =Bassus=, Vespasian’s governor of Judæa, =2=, 315. =Basula, Moses.= _See_ Moses Basula. =Batanæa=, given to Philip by Herod’s will, =2=, 119. under Philip, =2=, 137. given to Agrippa II, =2=, 245. cavalry from, sent to Jerusalem, =2=, 259, 260. Babylonian Judæans in, =2=, 274. Porphyry a native of, =2=, 502. the Benu-Kainukaa settle in, =3=, 77-8. =Batavian Republic, the, the Jews of=, emancipation of, =5=, 452. number of, =5=, 453, 455. disabilities of, =5=, 453. writings hostile to, =5=, 453. hold aloof from the National Assembly, =5=, 454. emancipated, =5=, 456-7. appointed to public offices, =5=, 458. protection of, in Germany, =5=, 458, 463. _See also_ Emancipation of the Dutch Jews; Holland. =Bath-Kol=, heavenly voice, =2=, 337, 338. =Bathori, Stephen=, election of, as king of Poland, =4=, 642. the Jews prosperous under, =4=, 642-3. =Bathsheba=, wife of Uriah the Hittite, becomes David’s wife, =1=, 132. sons of, =1=, 133. made first queen, =1=, 134. pleads for Solomon’s succession, =1=, 153. =Bathyra=, Judæan fortress in Batanæa, =2=, 274. =Baudin=, suppresses evidence in favor of the Damascus Jews, =5=, 637.