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List of Ancient Rabbis

Simeon the Just 140 BCE high priest ; Simeon ben Shetach 80-50 BCE led Pharisees to power ; cHoni the Circle-drawer 60-50 BCE wonder-worker ; Abtalion 60-30 BCE taught 7 ; Shemaiah 50-30 BCE taught 7 ; Shammai 40 BCE- rigorist ; 20 CE rival of 7 ; HILLEL (the elder) 30 BCE- forms middoth ; 20 CE school prevails ; Hilkiah 20-10 BCE wonder-worke...

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Purity and Social Relations Texts

An Unclean Cup, What Defiles?, Whose House is Dirty?, Tax Collectors Visit, A Leper's Visit, Passing Lepers, Sin causes Sickness, Gentiles & Heretics, Who profanes?, Other Interpretations of Torah, Disciples of Abraham and Balaam, Who is Hostile?, Against Trusting Secular Types, Kosher Marriage, A Woman with Child, Reason for Divorce, Letter of...

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Rabbinic Academy

Since the Pharisees lacked a central authority, prior to the destruction of the temple there was no fixed form or content to the oral instruction communicated by each rabbi. Yet, during the early 1st c. CE, two schools of interpretation became influential among Judean Pharisees: the school of Shammai & the school of Hillel. After the destructio...

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Rabbinic Wisdom Texts

Mishnaic writings, Hillel, Shammai and others....

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Pharisees and Sadducees

Josephus, Mishna and Talumdic quotes...

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Persona in Rabbinic Tradition

Rabbis. Abba Arika Gamaliel I Jeremiah Samuel bar Abba Abtalion _______ II Johanan bar Nappacha ______ the Small Acha bar Jacob _______ III ________ ben Zakkai ______ ben Nachmani Alexandri Jonathan ben Eleazar Shammai Aqiba ben Joseph Hanan ha Nechba José ben Halaphta Shemaiah cHanania ben Teradion ____ the Priest Shila Dosa ben Harkinas c...

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Tractates

The Mishna & later rabbinic collections & commentaries on oral Torah [talmudim & tosefta] are arranged in six general "orders" [sedarim], each of which contains several named tractates [massektoth] reporting tannaitic traditions vaguely related to a central theme. The bulk of the traditions recorded in the Mishna have to do with rules o...

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Talmudic Tractates

The Mishna & later rabbinic collections & commentaries on oral Torah [talmudim & tosefta] are arranged in six general "orders" [sedarim], each of which contains several named tractates [massektoth] reporting tannaitic traditions vaguely related to a central theme. The bulk of the traditions recorded in the Mishna have to do with rules o...

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Midrash

Hebrew term for "Interpretation" or "Exposition." The word generally used for any written or oral commentary on a biblical text. The original purpose of midrash was to resolve problems in the Hebrew text of the Bible. As early as the 1st c. CE rabbinic principles of hermeneutics & philology were used to bring the interpretation of difficult pas...

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Talmudic Tractates

Zera'im ["Seeds"] Agriculture Berakoth ["Blessings"] Prayer Mo'ed ["Festivals"] Calendar & Ritual Shabbath ["Sabbath"] Sabbath observance Erubin ["Blendings"] Resolution of problems Pesachim ["Passovers"] Passover observance Yoma ["Day (of Atonement)"] Yom Kippur Rosh HaShanah ["New Year's Day"] Calendar calculations Ta'anith ["Fasting"] ...

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