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Sutra I, also called Mar-Zutra, "Rav", "Prince (of Israel)", son of the 30th Exilarch of Babylon, Mar-Zutra II, begotten of his father's second wife, who carried him as an infant to Israel (then called Palestine) where as an adult he was accepted as "Nasi" and / or "Patriarch", i.e., head of the Sanhedrin (at Tiberias), and, founded a new dynasty of the Israeli / Palestinian "Nesi'im", circa 550 (ending the interim that followed the deposition of Gamaliel VI a century earlier), being the Founder of the House of Mar-Zutra.[1]
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