Tannaim

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The Tannaim were early rabbinic sages of roughly the 1st–3rd centuries CE whose teachings form the core of the Mishnah and laid the foundation for classical Jewish law and tradition.

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Label Occurrences
Tannaim canonical 23
Tannaitic sages 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish religious scholars
group of rabbinic sages
rabbinic era
centralInstitution Sanhedrin at Usha
Sanhedrin at Yavneh
coreText Halakhic Midrashim
linked to: Midrash halakha

Mishnah
Tosefta
etymologyLanguage Mishnaic Hebrew
linked to: Hebrew
etymologyMeaning repeaters
field Aggadah
Halakha
Jewish ethics
Jewish law
followedBy Amoraim
geographicRegion Land of Israel
linked to: Eretz HaKodesh

Roman Judea
linked to: Judea
historicalContext Roman rule in Judea
post-Second Temple Judaism
influenced Amoraim
Talmud
classical Jewish law
later rabbinic literature
languageOfTeaching Jewish Aramaic
Mishnaic Hebrew
linked to: Hebrew
legalMethod development of halakhic midrash
use of hermeneutic principles
notableMember Rabban Gamliel II
Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai
Rabbi Akiva
Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus
Rabbi Meir
Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai
linked to: Shimon bar Yochai

Rabbi Tarfon
Rabbi Yehoshua ben Hananiah
Rabbi Yehuda haNasi
linked to: Judah ha-Nasi
numberOfGenerations approximately five
precededBy Zugot
primaryActivity codification of oral law
formulation of Mishnah
legal debate and discourse
religiousStatus authoritative interpreters of Torah
religiousTradition Judaism
role authors of Mishnah-era teachings
teachers of oral Torah
transmitters of Jewish oral tradition
timePeriodEnd 3rd century CE
timePeriodStart 1st century CE

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Shimon bar Yochai memberOf Tannaim
Judah ha-Nasi category Tannaim
Amoraim followed Tannaim
Amoraim precededBy Tannaim
Acharonim distinguishedFrom Tannaim
Rishonim distinguishedFrom Tannaim
Tannaitic period namedAfter Tannaim
Sifre Devarim associatedWith Tannaim
Rava precededBy Tannaim
Savoraim distinctFrom Tannaim
Tractate Beitzah discussesBy Tannaim
Zugot followedBy Tannaim
Yavneh associatedWith Tannaitic sages
linked to: Tannaim
Rabbi Tarfon category Tannaim