SANHEDRIN, a Hebrew and Jewish-Aramaic loanword from the Greek sunedrion, is believed to be the name of the supreme autonomous institution of the Jews of Palestine during the Roman and early Byzantine periods (63 BCE to the fifth or sixth century CE)....

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...

Jewish council that operated in Roman Palestine from the time of the Maccabees (&circa; 165 &BC;) to the end of the patriarchate (&AD; 425). While the term refers to the supreme Jewish court, the Sanhedrin's exact composition and...

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

Tractate the *Mishnah dealing with judicial...

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