Hananiah ben Teradyon — (fl. 2nd cent) Babylonian tanna. He was head of the yeshivah of Siknin in Galilee. He was sentenced to death for teaching the Torah in defiance of Hadrian s decree forbidding religious instruction. He was burned at the stake wrapped in a Torah … Dictionary of Jewish Biography
HANANIAH (Hanina) BEN TERADYON — (second century C.E.), tanna during the jabneh era, and martyr. Two halakhic precedents are brought in his name (Ta an. 2:5; Tosef. Ta anit 1:13), and a small number of explicit dicta in halakhah and aggadah are ascribed to him (Tosef. Mik. 6:3,… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ELEAZAR BEN PARTA — (c. early 2nd century C.E.), tanna. He is mentioned only once in the Mishnah (Git. 3:4), and four times in the Tosefta. In one of his homilies, he warns against evil speech by pointing out that if the spies (Num. 12) who spoke evil only of trees… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
JUDAH BEN BAVA — (second century C.E.), tanna, and according to the later aggadah, a martyr of the era of jabneh . A number of halakhot are reported in his name in the Mishnah, the Tosefta and the tannaitic Midrashim. One dealt with the case of a husband s death… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
BERURYAH — (second century), a learned woman mentioned once in the Tosefta, and identified in the aggadot of the Talmud Bavli as the daughter of R. Hananiah b. Teradyon and wife of R. Meir . Beruryah is the only woman mentioned by name in tannaitic sources… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
TALMUD, BABYLONIAN — (Heb. תַּלְמוּד בַּבְלִי), a literary work of monumental proportions (5,894 folio pages in the standard printed editions), which draws upon the totality of the spiritual, intellectual, ethical, historical, and legal traditions produced in… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Talmudic Academies in the Land of Israel — The Talmudic Academies in the Land of Israel were yeshivot that served as centers for Jewish scholarship and the development of Jewish law in the Levant and had a great and lasting impact on the development of world Jewry. According to an oft… … Wikipedia
Meir — (2nd century AD) Palestinian tanna. Meir was the outstanding pupil of the great Rabbi AKIBA. He fled after the suppression of the BAR KOCHBA revolt and the execution of Akiba by the Romans. When the Roman persecutions abated, Meir took a… … Who’s Who in Jewish History after the period of the Old Testament
HISTORY — For Prehistory see archaeology ; for Biblical and Second Temple periods, see history . Destruction of the Second Temple until the Arab Conquest (70–640 C.E.) THE EFFECTS OF THE WAR OF 66–70 C.E. The Jewish war against the Romans, which lasted… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
EZEKIEL — EZEKIEL, a major prophet who is said to have begun prophesying in the fifth year of Jehoiachin s exile in Babylonia, seven years before the final fall of Jerusalem; his prophecies are recorded in the book that bears his name. The name Ezekiel… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
