SHIMʿON BEN GAMLIʾEL II (second century CE) was a Palestinian tanna. He held the hereditary office of nasiʾ, or president, of the Sanhedrin. It is said that he studied Greek and that he supported a policy of peace with Rome....

[1] Jewish legislative and administrative agency in Temple times, in charge of internal affairs of the Jewish community; based in the Jerusalem Temple. [2] Mishnah tractate devoted to the organization of the government and court system and the...

The supreme religious and political body of the Jews in the period of the Second *Temple and later. It was referred to as the ‘court of seventy-one’ and *talmudic sources describe it as a permanent assembly of *sages. Different sources give...

Body convened by Napoleon I. The Great Sanhedrin met in 1807 to confirm the decisions of Napoleon’s newly formed Assembly of Jewish...

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