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Johanan ben Zakkai
Johanan ben Zakkai , leader of the Pharisees of Jerusalem before the destruction of the Temple in AD 70, afterward founder of the Jewish academy at Jamnia . He emphasized the study of the Torah as the primary religious duty for which humankind was created. After AD 70 he taught that deeds of loving... Read more
Jamnia
Jamnia , biblical Jabneel and Jabneh [Heb.,=God causes to build], ancient city, central Israel. Its modern name is Yavne. A central city of Philistia, the Bible refers to its walls being destroyed by Uzziah. It was pillaged by Judas Maccabaeus and later rebuilt. In the last years before the sack... Read more
Pharisees
Pharisees , one of the two great Jewish religious and political parties of the second commonwealth. Their opponents were the Sadducees , and it appears that the Sadducees gave them their name, perushim, Hebrew for "separatists" or "deviants." The Pharisees began their activities during or... Read more

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Johanan ben Zakkai
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Johanan ben Zakkai The Jewish teacher Johanan ben Zakkai (active ca. A.D. 70) was the leading expounder of Jewish...his time. He founded an important academy at Yavneh. Johanan ben Zakkai was the youngest among the numerous disciples of the... Read more
Akiba ben Joseph
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Akiba ben Joseph The Palestinian rabbi Akiba ben Joseph (ca. 50-ca. 135) was a founder...interpretation. The early life of Akiba ben Joseph is enshrouded in legends, anecdotes...illiterate shepherd employed by the wealthy Ben Kalba Sabua, whose daughter Rachel married...40 entered the rabbinical ... Read more
Gamaliel of Jabneh
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...grandson of the Gamaliel who, according to tradition, taught St. Paul the law. A Palestinian Tanna, he succeeded Johanan ben Zakkai as head of the academy at Jamnia . He centralized rabbinic authority and was recognized by the Romans as a leader... Read more
Tannaim
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple (AD 70), Johanan ben Zakkai reconstituted the academy at Jabneh (see Jamnia ), where the work of the Tannaim flourished. Akiba ben Joseph was among their disciples. The final compilation... Read more
Jamnia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...sack of Jerusalem (AD 70), Jamnia became a great Jewish cultural center. At the prayer of Johanan ben Zakkai , Vespasian spared Jamnia and permitted Johanan to settle there as leader of the Jewish community after the fall of Jerusalem. The Great... Read more

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Zakkai, Johanan ben
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Zakkai, Johanan ben (leading Jewish sage): see JOHANAN BEN ZAKKAI . Read more
Johanan ben Zakkai
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Johanan ben Zakkai (1st cent. CE). Leading Jewish sage ( ḥakham ) after the destruction of the second Temple . As a teacher, Johanan is remembered for his precise examination of biblical texts and as the first sage known to have been engaged in merkabah mysticism... Read more
Eliezer ben Hyrcanus
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Eliezer ben Hyrcanus (end of 1st cent. CE). Jewish tanna . Eliezer was described by Johanan b. Zakkai as outweighing all the sages of Israel ( Avot 2. 8). Both literally and metaphorically, he regarded the transmission of the Jewish... Read more
Eleazar
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...and amoraim . Eleazar ben Arakh (late 1st cent...outstanding pupil of R. Johanan b. Zakkai who described him as...force’. Eleazar ben Azariah (1st–2nd...Rabban Gamaliel II. Eleazar ben Damma (early 2nd cent...of R. Ishmael . Eleazar ben Judah of Bartota (early... Read more
Jabneh
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...as Jamnia ). Town to the east of Jerusalem . It came to prominence after the Fall of Jerusalem in 70 CE, when R. Johanan ben Zakkai was allowed by the Romans to establish a centre of learning—and, from the Jewish point of view, the Sanhedrin... Read more
Hekhalot and merkabah
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...chariot chapters of Ezekiel are at least as early as Johanan ben Zakkai , and, following the discovery among the Cairo Genizah Fragments of an early text describing Johanan's experience, it seems clear that Saul (who became... Read more
Merkabah mysticism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...prophet Ezekiel's vision of God's chariot, and such study was recognized to have particular dangers to untutored minds. Johanan ben Zakkai was a practitioner of merkabah mysticism, and early accounts of his experience (e.g. in a Cairo Genizah fragment... Read more

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The Shadow of God.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Currents in Theology and Mission; 6/1/2007; ; 111 words ; ...in Babylon on whether to serve Nebuchadnezzar and ends with a tale about a conversation between Johanan ben Zakkai and Vespasian that won Johanan a claim to imperial property near Jamnia, where he founded rabbinic Judaism. In thirteen other... Read more