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Tannaim (Amoraic Hebrew: Hebrew: תנאים[tannɔʔim] "repeaters", "teachers", singular tannaתנא[tanˈnɔː], borrowed from Aramaic)[1] were the rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah,[2] from approximately 10–220 CE. The period of the Tannaim, also referred to as the Mishnaic period, lasted about 210 years. It came after the period of the Zugot "Pairs" and was immediately followed by the period of the Amoraim "Interpreters".[3]
The root tanna (תנא) is the Aramaic equivalent of the Hebrew root shanah (שנה), which also is the root word of Mishnah. The verb shanah means "to repeat [what one was taught]" and is used to mean "to learn".
The Mishnaic period is commonly divided into five periods according to generations. There are approximately 120 known Tannaim.
The Tannaim lived in several areas of the Land of Israel. The spiritual center of Judaism at that time was Jerusalem, but after the destruction of the city and the Second Temple, Yohanan ben Zakkai and his students founded a new Council of Jamnia.[citation needed] Other places of learning were founded by his students in Lod and in Bnei Brak.
Some Tannaim worked as laborers (e.g., charcoal burners, cobblers) in addition to their positions as teachers and legislators. They were also leaders of the people and negotiators with the Roman Empire.[citation needed]
^Scharfstein, Sol (2008). Torah and Commentary: The Five Books of Moses : Translation, Rabbinic and Contemporary Commentary. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. p. 523. ISBN 978-1-60280-020-5. The rabbis educated at Yavneh would be links in the great unbroken chain of teachers of the Torah. Yohanan and those who followed him were called tannaim, meaning "repeaters" or "teachers.
^Trachtenberg, Joshua (2004) [Originally published 1939]. "Glossary of Hebrew Terms". Jewish Magic and Superstition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 333. ISBN 9780812218626. Retrieved Oct 21, 2022. Tanna (pl. Tannaim)—authorities cited in the Mishna and coëval writings.
^Scharfstein, Sol (1996). Understanding Jewish History: From the patriarchs to the expulsion from Spain. KTAV Publishing House. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-88125-545-4. ... both in Palestine and in Babylonia, were called amoraim, meaning "speakers" or "interpreters"
codified in the Gemara. The Amoraim followed the Tannaim in the sequence of ancient Jewish scholars. The Tannaim were direct transmitters of uncodified oral...
territories, which was believed to reflect 'early practices' (Ezekiel 47:21–23). Tannaim were the rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah, from approximately...
Mishnah) can be derived using them.... The rabbis of the Mishnah are known as Tannaim (sing. Tanna תנא). The rabbis of the Gemara are referred to as Amoraim...
years towards the end of the Second Temple era. (142 BCE – c. 40 BCE) Tannaim ("teachers"): The sages of the Mishnah, who lived in the Land of Israel...
and the Midrash, that did not follow the words, was recognized by the Tannaim and the Amoraim, although their idea of the literal meaning of a passage...
rabbis recorded in the Mishnah are known as the Tannaim (literally, "repeaters", or "teachers"). These tannaim—rabbis of the second century CE--"who produced...
of the Soferim and the Tannaim of the first two generations; The midrash of the younger halakha, or the midrash of the Tannaim of the three following...
reason they are able to get away with disagreeing is because they are Tannaim. There are “only a handful of possible exceptions [to the rule] that the...
"pairs" of religious teachers, and to each of these pairs themselves. The Tannaim ("repeaters") were rabbis living primarily in Eretz Yisrael who codified...
expounds broadly on the Tanakh. The rabbis of the Mishnah are known as Tannaim (sing. Tanna תנא). The rabbis of the Gemara are referred to as Amoraim...
to the prophets, to the men of the Great Assembly, to the Zugot, to the Tannaim. The chain of semikhah was probably lost in the 4th or 5th century, though...
Law could be preserved. After many years of effort by a great number of tannaim, the oral tradition was written down around 200 CE by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi...
in the Tosefta in Shabbat 11:15 and Sanhedrin 10:11 respectively. The Tannaim and Amoraim who recorded the accounts in the Talmud and Tosefta use the...
collections, individual barayata are often authored by sages of the Mishna (Tannaim). According to Maimonides' Introduction to Mishneh Torah, the barayata...
and in both unions the offspring are judged matrilineally. Second, the Tannaim may have been influenced by Roman law, which dictated that when a parent...
against Roman rule. Rabbi Meir was considered one of the greatest of the Tannaim of the third generation (139–163). According to the Talmud, he was a descendant...
Hiyya bar Abba, belonged to the foremost leaders in the closing age of the Tannaim. His nephew, Abba Arika, afterward called simply Rav, was one of the most...
Dosetai is a Hebraized form of the Greek given name Dositheus meaning "gift of God". It was extremely popular in late classical Judea and among Jewish...
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