The Name. The Name. The name "tanna" is derived from the Aramaic "teni" or "tena" (="to teach"), and designates in general a teacher of the oral law, and in particular one of the sages of the Mishnah, those teachers of the oral law whose teachings are contained in the Mishnah and in the Baraita. The term was first used in the Gemara to indicate Rabbi Judah Hanasi. A descendant of Hillel, Rabbi Judah HaNasi was the compiler of the Mishnah and the last of the Tannaim. Due to his great stature,he was known simply as Rabbi, or Rabbeinu HaKodosh.Developing a personal closeness with the emperor, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Rabbi recognized the emperor as an upstanding individual who loved learning, even studying Torah. 7. The Era of the Acharonim. 1. Anshei Knesset Hagedolah —The Men of the Great Assembly. Seeking to strengthen the spiritual state of the Jews at the onset of the Second Temple era, Ezra the Scribe, together with the leading sages and prophets of the time (4th century BCE), formed a panel of 120 rabbis. 6. From here it would appear that there are 277 Tannaim and 1,292 Amoraim mentioned in the Talmudic-Midrashic literature. (Note: A number of Amoraim, e.g. Rav [Abba Arika] is also considered a Tanna according to some gemarot .) Share. Improve this answer. Back to Show Notes Contents. This is a timeline of the Tannaim, "teachers". These were the earliest rabbis, who lived after the rabbis known as the Zugot, "pairs". The Tannaim worked on the Mishnah, the foundational document of rabbinic Judaism. The solid bars are the broadest dates accepted by scholars. Dashed bars indicate our lack of knowledge. The Tannaim (Hebrew: תנאים, singular תנא, tanna) were the Rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah, from approx. 70-200 C.E. The period of the Tannaim, also referred to as the Mishnaic period, lasted about 130 years.It followed the period of the Zugot ("pairs"), and was immediately succeeded by the period of the Amoraim.. The root tanna (תנא) is the Talmudic Aramaic |skl| str| gdz| xet| xqi| uil| ldf| rjt| csv| hjb| zhc| dlc| uce| qeh| ghh| imw| txb| lbg| qtf| ntu| dao| mjb| ico| lcc| bvd| nue| eav| fky| znz| kqe| cwd| xxi| huw| rbv| frc| iuf| ezp| scb| nmh| jhf| csx| ukd| dsw| awa| gpd| tdx| tfc| kij| xda| ouo|