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    The Sanhedrin (Hebrew and Aramaic: סַנְהֶדְרִין from Koinē Greek: Συνέδριον, synedrion, 'sitting together,' hence 'assembly' or 'council') was a legislative...
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  • The Sanhedrin was an assembly of judges. Sanhedrin may also be: Sanhedrin (Talmud), a tractate on criminal law Negro Sanhedrin, an assembly of representatives...
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  • Sanhedrin (סנהדרין‎) is one of ten tractates of Seder Nezikin (a section of the Talmud that deals with damages, i.e. civil and criminal proceedings)....
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    In the New Testament, the Sanhedrin trial of Jesus refers to the trial of Jesus before the Sanhedrin (a Jewish judicial body) following his arrest in Jerusalem...
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    The Grand Sanhedrin was a Jewish high court convened in Europe by French Emperor Napoleon I to give legal sanction to the principles expressed by an assembly...
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  • Modern attempts to revive the Sanhedrin are the efforts from 1538 until the present day to renew the Sanhedrin, which was the high court and legislative...
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  • revived Sanhedrin, a national rabbinical court of Jewish law in Israel. The organization heading this attempt referred to itself as the nascent Sanhedrin or...
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    many men, as one would thresh wheat (Babylonian Talmud, Sotah 42b). The Sanhedrin tractate in the Talmud says that she was killed by King David's general...
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    by many Christian sources. The texts cited by critics include Sanhedrin 67a, Sanhedrin 106a, and Shabbath 104b. However, the references to Mary are not...
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    The Negro Sanhedrin was a national "All-Race Conference" held in the American city of Chicago, Illinois, from February 11 to 15, 1924. The gathering was...
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  • romanized: nāśī) is a title meaning "prince" in Biblical Hebrew, "Prince [of the Sanhedrin]" in Mishnaic Hebrew. Certain great figures from Jewish history have the...
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    Gamaliel (category Sanhedrin)
    ho Presbýteros), or Rabban Gamaliel I, was a leading authority in the Sanhedrin in the early first century CE. He was the son of Simeon ben Hillel and...
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    18a; Mishneh Torah, Kelei haMikdash 5:1 Tosefta, Sanhedrin 4; Mishneh Torah, Kelei haMikdash 5:3 Sanhedrin 18–19; Mishneh Torah, Kelei haMikdash 5:4 Mishneh...
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    the trial of Jesus in praetorium before Pontius Pilate, preceded by the Sanhedrin Trial. In the Gospel of Luke, Pilate finds that Jesus, being from Galilee...
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  • decreed upon a person unless there were a minimum of twenty-three judges (Sanhedrin) adjudicating in that person's trial who, by a majority vote, gave the...
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  • Sanhedrin 1994–1997 is a 2005 double album by John Zorn's Masada featuring previously unreleased studio recordings. The Allmusic review by Sean Westergaard...
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    7920426°N 35.2304935°E / 31.7920426; 35.2304935 The Cave of the Minor Sanhedrin is a burial cave located next to the Tomb of Simeon the Just in the Sheikh...
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    Tombs of the Sanhedrin (Hebrew: קברי הסנהדרין, Kivrei HaSanhedrin), also Tombs of the Judges, is an underground complex of 63 rock-cut tombs located in...
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    Sanhedrin 11 Sanhedrin 107b ibid. Compare Shabbat 14:1 Sotah 47a Yerushalmi Sanhedrin 29b Sanhedrin 107b; Sotah 47a Leviticus Rabbah 16:4 Sanhedrin 100a Yerushalmi...
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    installed by Pilate's predecessor, the Roman procurator Valerius Gratus. The Sanhedrin was a Jewish judicial body. The gospel accounts differ on the details...
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  • The Council of Jamnia (presumably Yavneh in the Holy Land) was a council purportedly held late in the 1st century AD to finalize the development of the...
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  • among them the Apostle Paul – a student of Gamaliel, who warned the Sanhedrin that opposing the disciples of Jesus could prove to be tantamount to opposing...
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  • Table of Nations. There were 70 men in the Great Sanhedrin, the Supreme Court of ancient Israel. (Sanhedrin 1:4.) According to the Jewish Aggada, there are...
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    (zugot) which led the Sanhedrin. The Hasmonean Kingdom ended in 37 BCE but it is believed that the "two-man rule of the Sanhedrin" lasted until the early...
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    According to the canonical gospels, Jesus was arrested and tried by the Sanhedrin, and then sentenced by Pontius Pilate to be scourged, and finally crucified...
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    Second Temple Period Yehud Medinata Maccabean Revolt Hasmonean dynasty Sanhedrin Schisms (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes) Second Temple Judaism (Hellenistic...
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    of Jewish notables in 1806 to that end. In 1807, he summoned a Great Sanhedrin to adapt the law of Moses to those of the empire. An imperial decree of...
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    sighting of a new crescent, with two eyewitnesses required to testify to the Sanhedrin to having seen the new lunar crescent at sunset. The practice in the time...
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    an organizer of the plot to kill Jesus. He famously presided over the Sanhedrin trial of Jesus. The primary sources for Caiaphas' life are the New Testament...
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    Second Temple Period Yehud Medinata Maccabean Revolt Hasmonean dynasty Sanhedrin Schisms (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes) Second Temple Judaism (Hellenistic...
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