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Chapter 9 - Yehuda Ha-Nasi Part 1

Season 2, Ep. 1
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Years covered: 136-161


There is no Temple, the Rabbis are fugitives, circumcision is illegal and the dead bodies of the Jews of Judea haven't even been buried yet. So Jews do what they've always done: start a school, and start again.


Jews

  • Judah Hanasi (born during the Bar Kochba revolt)
  • Shimon Ben Gamliel II (Judah's father, the Nasi at Usha)
  • Judah Bar Ilai
  • Rabbi Meir
  • Beruria 
  • Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai
  • Elazar ben Shimon (son of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai)
  • Rabbi Jose Ben Halafta
  • Elazar Ben Shamua
  • Rabbi Natan 
  • Elisha Ben Abuya 
  • Hanania Ben Ahi Rav Yehoshua  
  • Trypho 

Greeks

  • Justin Martyr (Greek philosopher born in Judea, Christian apologist)
  • Marcion of Sinope (from the Greek city of Sinope; died ~160)

Romans

  • Hadrian x
  • Lucius Aelius Commodus x
  • Antoninus Pius x
  • Marcus Aurelius
  • Lucius Verus 
  • Suetonius 


Sources

Babylonian Talmud (Bavli) 

Berakhot 57b, 63a–b  

Shabbat 33b, 49b, 118b 9. 

Pesachim 118a

Chagigah 15b 

Horayot 13b 

Avodah Zarah 10a–11a, 18a–b ,44b 15. 

Sanhedrin 14a, 39a, 91a–b 

Kiddushin 71a, 72b

Jerusalem Talmud (Yerushalmi)


Berakhot 3:1 

Yoma 3:7

Pesachim 4:1 

Chagigah 2:1

Sanhedrin 1:2 

Nedarim 6:8 (

Midrash

Bereshit Rabbah

Vayikra Rabbah

Bamidbar Rabbah

Tanchuma Tazria

Shir HaShirim Rabbah

Eichah Rabbah 

Greek and Syriac works 

Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho

Suetonius, 12 Caesars

Irenaeus, Against Heresies

Epiphanius, Panarion

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