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Abtalion (Hebrew: אַבְטַלְיוֹןʾAḇṭalyōn) or Avtalyon (Modern Hebrew) was a rabbinic sage in the early pre-Mishnaic era. He was a leader of the Pharisees during the 1st century BCE, and by tradition the vice-president of the great Sanhedrin of Jerusalem. He lived at the same time as Sh'maya. They are known as one of the zugot ("couples"): Shmaya and Avtalyon.
Abtalion (Hebrew: אַבְטַלְיוֹן ʾAḇṭalyōn) or Avtalyon (Modern Hebrew) was a rabbinic sage in the early pre-Mishnaic era. He was a leader of the Pharisees...
soon to offer the chief medium for the cultivation of Bible exegesis. Abtalion and Shemaiah are the first to bear the title darshan, and it was probably...
Hillel his contemporary, took on oversight of the Sanhedrin sometime after Abtalion and Shemayah relinquished power. Shammai's school of thought became known...
Shetach, at the time of Alexander Jannaeus and Salome Alexandra Shmaya and Abtalion, at the time of Hyrcanus II Hillel the Elder and Shammai, at the time of...
Guard Vitrasius Pollio (died AD 32) Roman member of the equestrian class Abtalion, a leading rabbi in the 1st century BC, known as Pollion in Greek and Pollio...
Shetach Judah ben Tabbai's students were the next Pharisee zugot, Shmaya and Abtalion. In Pirkei Avot, Judah ben Tabbai is quoted as saying: Do not act as an...
Hillel had to overcome to gain admittance to the school of Sh'maya and Abtalion, and the hardships he suffered while pursuing his aim, are told in the...
Jish with the nearby Jewish village of Dalton. The tombs of Shmaya and Abtalion, a pair of Jewish sages who taught in Jerusalem in the early 1st century...
Menologium at the end of the 19th century. It is possibly derived from Abtalion, or from a Greek word meaning a sanctuary, a temple. Superanskaya, p. 29...
village was established in 1987 as a moshav shitufi, and was named after Abtalion, a rabbinic sage in the early pre-Mishnaic era. It was later converted...
פיאבת) Made high priest by Herod the Great. Contemporary with Pollio (Abtalion) the teacher, and his disciple Sameas (Shamiah) Deprived of the high priesthood...
based on Mishnah Eduyot 1:3 and on Maimonides' explanation there, where Abtalion and Shemaiah, two foreigners who converted to Judaism, could not pronounce...
Later, the day of celebration was cancelled, since two great rabbis, Abtalion and Shemaiah, were known to have been executed some years earlier on the...
Menahem, Halafta (who died in his lifetime), and Eudemus. He exemplified Abtalion's dictum, "Love work"; for he was a tanner, a trade then commonly held in...
after it had become known that the day also marked a day of sadness, when Abtalion and Shamaiah were executed some years earlier on that very day.] "On the...
where the former associate presidents of the Sanhedrin, Shemaiah and Abtalion, had the test made on a freed woman; whereupon Akabia disdainfully exclaimed...
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