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Jamnia

A Dictionary of the Bible | 1997 | | Copyright

Jamnia A city (also spelt Jabneh or Javneh) south of Joppa where after 70 CE a body of Jewish teachers met by way of succeeding to the role of the Sanhedrin but without any formal constitution. It has been suggested that the canon of the Hebrew OT was settled here, but this is unlikely. It was at any rate in the Jamnian period, up to 135 CE—when it was important to come to terms with the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple and to reconstruct a new and authentic Judaism—that the status of books like Ecclesiastes would have been discussed. It is likely that the condemnation of heretics (Christians) was agreed. See baraitha.

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Jamnia

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Jamnia or Jabneh, a city c.13 miles south of Joppa. After the fall of Jerusalem (AD 70), an assembly of Jewish religious teachers was established there. The subjects discussed by the rabbis apparently included the status of certain biblical Books, but there is no evidence to support the suggestion that a particular synod, held here c.100, settled the limits of the OT canon.

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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Jamnia." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Jamnia." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-Jamnia.html

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