Biblical Hermeneutics
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PRINCIPLES OF BIBLICAL HERMENETICS ; M. M. NINAN<br />
First Generation (10-80 C.E.):<br />
Principal tannaim: the Shammaites (Bet Shammai) and the Hillelites (Bet Hillel), 'Aḳabya b. Mahalaleel, Rabban<br />
Gamaliel the Elder, Ḥanina, chief of the priests ("segan ha-kohanim"), Simeon b. Gamaliel, and Johanan b. Zakkai.<br />
Second Generation (80-120):<br />
Principal tannaim: Rabban Gamaliel II. (of Jabneh), Zadok, Dosa b. Harkinas, Eliezer b. Jacob, Eliezer b. Hyrcanus,<br />
Joshua b. Hananiah, Eleazar b. Azariah, Judah b. Bathyra.<br />
Third Generation (120-140):<br />
Principal tannaim: Ṭarfon, Ishmael, Akiba, Johanan b. Nuri, Jose ha-Gelili, Simeon b. Nanos, Judah b. Baba, and<br />
Johanan b. Baroḳa. Several of these flourished in the preceding period.<br />
Fourth Generation:<br />
This generation extended from the death of Akiba (c. 140) to that of the patriarch Simeon b. Gamaliel (c. 165). The<br />
teachers belonging to this generation were: Meïr, Judah b. Ilai, Jose b. Ḥalafta, Simeon b. Yoḥai, Eleazar b.<br />
Shammua, Johanan ha-Sandalar, Eleazar b. Jacob, Nehemiah, Joshua b. Ḳarḥa, and the above-mentioned Simeon b.<br />
Gamaliel.<br />
Fifth Generation (165-200):<br />
Principal tannaim: Nathan ha-Babli, Symmachus, Judah ha-Nasi I., Jose b. Judah, Eleazar b. Simeon, Simeon b.<br />
Eleazar.<br />
Sixth Generation (200-220):<br />
To this generation belong the contemporaries and disciples of Judah ha-Nasi. They are mentioned in the Tosefta and<br />
the Baraita but not in the Mishnah. Their names are: Polemo, Issi b. Judah, Eleazar b. Jose, Ishmael b. Jose, Judah<br />
b. Laḳish, Ḥiyya, Aḥa, Abba (Arika). These teachers are termed "semi-tannaim"; and therefore some scholars count<br />
only five generations of tannaim. Christian scholars, moreover, count only four generations, reckoning the second<br />
and third as one (Strack, "Einleitung in den Talmud," pp. 77 et seq.).<br />
The tannaitic tradition recognizes three such collections, namely:<br />
The Seven Rules of Hillel<br />
The Thirteen Rules of Rabbi Ishmael<br />
The Thirty-two Rules of Eliezer B. Jose Ha-Ge-lili<br />
A fourth tradition came about in the Jewish Mysticism known as Kaballah which<br />
gave 42 Rules of Zohar.<br />
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