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The Sanhedrin (Hebrew: סַנְהֶדְרִין sanhedrîn, Greek: Συνέδριον,[1] synedrion, "sitting together," hence "assembly" or "council") was an assembly of twenty-three to seventy-one men appointed in every city in the Land of Israel. In the Hebrew Bible,[2] Moses and the Israelites were commanded by God to establish courts of judges who were given full authority over the people of Israel, who were commanded by God to obey every word the judges instructed and every law they established. Judges in ancient Israel were the religious leaders and Teachers of the nation of Israel. The Mishnah[3] arrives at the number twenty-three based on an exegetical derivation: it must be possible for a "community" to vote for both conviction and exoneration.[4] The minimum size of a "community" is 10 men[5] (10 vs 10). One more is required to achieve a majority (11 vs 10), but a simple majority cannot convict,[6] and so an additional judge is required (12 vs 10). Finally, a court should not have an even number of judges to prevent deadlocks; thus 23 (12 vs 10 and 1). This court dealt with only religious matters.
The Great Sanhedrin was made up of a Nasi (President), who functioned as head or representing president, and was a member of the court, an Av Beit Din, the chief of the court who was second to the nasi, and sixty-nine general members (Mufla).[7] In the Second Temple period, the Great Sanhedrin met in the Hall of Hewn Stones in the Temple in Jerusalem. The court convened every day except festivals and Shabbat.
After the destruction of the Second Temple and the failure of the Bar Kokhba Revolt, the Great Sanhedrin moved to Galilee, which became part of the Roman Syria Palaestina province and was sometimes referred as the Galilean Patriarchate or Patriarchate of Palaestina, being the governing legalistic body of Galilean Jewry until about 425 CE. In the late 3rd century, to avoid persecution, its authoritative decisions were issued under the name of Beit HaMidrash. Historically, the last binding decision of the Great Sanhedrin appeared in 358 CE, when the Hebrew Calendar was adopted. The Great Sanhedrin was dissolved after continued persecution by the Eastern Roman Empire and aspiring Christendom. Over the centuries, there have been attempts to revive the institution, such as the Grand Sanhedrin convened by Napoleon Bonaparte and modern attempts in Israel.
A Synhedrion (Greek: Συνέδριον) is mentioned 22 times by Hellenistic Christian narrators in the Greek New Testament, in the Gospels in relation to the Synhedrion trial of Jesus, and several times in Acts of the Apostles, including a ″Great Synhedrion″ in chapter 5 where Gamaliel appeared, and in the stoning death of Stephen the deacon in chapter 7.
Contents
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1 History
1.1 Early Sanhedrin
1.2 Herodian and early Roman rule
1.3 During Jewish-Roman Wars
1.4 After Bar Kokhba Revolt
2 Great and Lesser Sanhedrin
2.1 Function and procedures
2.2 Summary of Patriarchal powers
2.3 Archaeological findings
3 Presidents
4 Revival attempts
4.1 Napoleon Bonaparte's "Grand Sanhedrin"
4.2 Modern attempts in Israel
5 See also
6 References
7 Bibliography
8 External links
History[edit]
Early Sanhedrin[edit]
The Hasmonean court in the Land of Israel, presided over by Alexander Jannaeus, king of Judea until 76 BCE, followed by his wife, was called Synhedrion or Sanhedrin.[8] The exact nature of this early Sanhedrin is not clear. It may have been a body of sages or priests, or a political, legislative and judicial institution. The first historical record of the body was during the administration of Aulus Gabinius, who, according to Josephus, organized five synedra in 57 BCE as Roman administration was not concerned with religious affairs unless sedition was suspected.[9] Only after the destruction of the Second Temple was the Sanhedrin made up only of sages.[8]
Herodian and early Roman rule[edit]
In the Second Temple period, the Great Sanhedrin met in the Hall of Hewn Stones in the Temple in Jerusalem. The court convened every day except festivals and Shabbat.
The Sanhedrin — "under the control"[10] of the Roman procurators — is mentioned in the Gospels in relation to the Sanhedrin trial of Jesus and several times in the Acts of the Apostles, including a Great Sanhedrin in chapter 5 where Gamaliel appeared, and in the stoning death of Stephen the deacon in chapter 7.
During Jewish-Roman Wars[edit]
After the destruction of the Second Temple in 70, the Sanhedrin was re-established in Yavneh with reduced authority. The seat of the Patriarchate moved to Usha under the presidency of Gamaliel II in 80 CE. In 116 it moved back to Yavneh, and then again back to Usha.
After Bar Kokhba Revolt[edit]
Galilee in late antiquity.
Rabbinic texts indicate that following the Bar Kokhba revolt, southern Galilee became the seat of rabbinic learning in the Land of Israel. This region was the location of the court of the Patriarch which was situated first at Usha, then at Bet Shearim, later at Sepphoris and finally at Tiberias.[11]
The Great Sanhedrin moved in 140 to Shefaram under the presidency of Shimon ben Gamliel II, and to Beit Shearim and Sepphoris in 163, under the presidency of Judah I. Finally, it moved to Tiberias in 193, under the presidency of Gamaliel III (193–230) ben Judah haNasi, where it became more of a consistory, but still retained, under the presidency of Judah II (230–270), the power of excommunication.
During the presidency of Gamaliel IV (270–290), due to Roman persecution, it dropped the name Sanhedrin; and its authoritative decisions were subsequently issued under the name of Beth HaMidrash.[citation needed]
Sanhedrin demise begun in 313 with the Edict of Milan regarding religious tolerance and marking the end of the persecutions against Christians, thus seen as the first step towards Christianity becoming the official state religion of the Roman Empire.[12]
In 363, emperor Julian ordered the Temple rebuilt.[13] A personal friend of his, Ammianus Marcellinus, wrote this about the effort:
Julian thought to rebuild at an extravagant expense the proud Temple once at Jerusalem, and committed this task to Alypius of Antioch. Alypius set vigorously to work, and was seconded by the governor of the province, when fearful balls of fire, breaking out near the foundations, continued their attacks, till the workmen, after repeated scorchings, could approach no more: and he gave up the attempt.
—  Ammianus Marcellinus
The failure to rebuild the Temple has been ascribed to the Galilee earthquake of 363, and to the Jews' ambivalence about the project. Sabotage is a possibility, as is an accidental fire. Divine intervention was the common view among Christian historians of the time.[14] Julian's support of Jews, coming after the hostility of many earlier Emperors, meant that Jews called him Julian the Hellene.[15]
As a reaction to Julian's pro-Jewish stance, Theodosius I forbade the Sanhedrin to assemble and declared ordination illegal. Capital punishment was prescribed for any Rabbi who received ordination and complete destruction of the town where the ordination occurred.[16]
However, since the Hebrew calendar was based on witnesses' testimony, that had become far too dangerous to collect, Hillel II recommended change to a mathematically based calendar that was adopted at a clandestine, and maybe final, meeting in 358 CE. This marked the last universal decision made by that body.
Gamaliel VI (400–425) was the Sanhedrin's last president. With his death in 425, Theodosius II outlawed the title of Nasi, the last remains of the ancient Sanhedrin. An imperial decree of 426 diverted the patriarchs' tax (post excessum patriarchorum) into the imperial treasury.[16] The exact reason for the abrogation of the patriarchate is not clear,[17] though Gamaliel VI, the last holder of the office who had been for a time elevated by the emperor to the rank of prefect,[12] may have fallen out with the imperial authorities.[17] Thereafter, Jews were gradually excluded from holding public office.[18]
Great and Lesser Sanhedrin[edit]
The Talmud (tractate Sanhedrin) identifies two classes of rabbinical courts called Sanhedrin, a Great Sanhedrin (בית דין הגדול) and a Lesser Sanhedrin (בית דין הקטן). Each city could have its own lesser Sanhedrin of 23 judges, but there could be only one Great Sanhedrin of 71, which among other roles acted as the Supreme Court, taking appeals from cases decided by lesser courts. The numbers of judges were predicated on eliminating the possibility of a tie and the last to cast their vote was the head of the court.
Function and procedures[edit]
The Sanhedrin as a body claimed powers that lesser Jewish courts did not have. As such, they were the only ones who could try the king, extend the boundaries of the Temple and Jerusalem, and were the ones to whom all questions of law were finally put. Before 191 BCE the High Priest acted as the ex officio head of the Sanhedrin,[citation needed] but in 191 BCE, when the Sanhedrin lost confidence in the High Priest, the office of Nasi was created. After the time of Hillel the Elder (late 1st century BCE and early 1st century CE), the Nasi was almost invariably a descendant of Hillel. The second highest-ranking member of the Sanhedrin was called the Av Beit Din, or "Head of the Court" (literally, Av Beit Din = "father of the house of judgment"), who presided over the Sanhedrin when it sat as a criminal court.[19]
During Second Temple era, the Sanhedrin met in a building known as the Hall of Hewn Stones (Lishkat ha-Gazit), which has been placed by the Talmud and many scholars as built into the north wall of the Temple Mount, half inside the sanctuary and half outside, with doors providing access both to the Temple and to the outside. The name presumably arises to distinguish it from the buildings in the Temple complex used for ritual purposes, which had to be constructed of stones unhewn by any iron implements.
In some cases, it was only necessary for a 23-member panel (functioning as a Lesser Sanhedrin) to convene. In general, the full panel of 71 judges was only convened on matters of national significance (e.g., a declaration of war) or in the event that the 23-member panel could not reach a conclusive verdict.[20]
By the end of the Second Temple period, the Sanhedrin reached its pinnacle of importance, legislating all aspects of Jewish religious and political life within the parameters laid down by Biblical and Rabbinic tradition.
Summary of Patriarchal powers[edit]
The following is a summary of the powers and responsibilities of the Patriarchate from the onset of the third century, based on rabbinic sources as portrayed by L.I. Levine:[21]
Representative to Imperial authorities;
Focus of leadership in the Jewish community:
Receiving daily visits from prominent families;
Declaration of public fast days;
Initiating or abrogating the ban (herem);
Appointment of judges to Jewish courts in the Land of Israel;
Regulation of the calendar;
Issuing enactments and decrees with respect to the applicability or release from legal requirements, e.g.:
Use of sabbatical year produce and applicability of sabbatical year injunctions;
Repurchase or redemption of formerly Jewish land from gentile owners;
Status of Hellenistic cities of the Land of Israel re: purity, tithing, sabbatical year;
Exemptions from tithing;
Conditions in divorce documents;
Use of oil produced by gentiles;
Dispatching emissaries to diaspora communities;
Taxation: both the power to tax and the authority to rule/intervene on the disposition of taxes raised for local purposes by local councils.
Up to the middle of the fourth century, the Patriarchate retained the prerogative of determining the Hebrew calendar and guarded the intricacies of the calculation process in an effort to subdue interference from the Babylonian community. Due to Christian persecution, Hillel II was obliged to fix the calendar in permanent form in 359 CE.[22][23] This institution symbolized the passing of authority from the Patriarchate to the Babylonian Academies.[24]
Archaeological findings[edit]
In 2004, excavations in Tiberias conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority uncovered a structure dating to the 3rd century CE that may have been the seat of the Sanhedrin when it convened in that city. At the time it was called Beit Hava'ad.[25]
Presidents[edit]
Main article: Nasi (Hebrew title)
Further information: Tannaim
Before 191 BCE the High Priest acted as the ex officio head of the Sanhedrin,[citation needed] but in 191 BCE, when the Sanhedrin lost confidence in the High Priest, the office of Nasi was created. The Sanhedrin was headed by the chief scholars of the great Talmudic Academies in the Land of Israel, and with the decline of the Sanhedrin, their spiritual and legal authority was generally accepted, the institution itself being supported by voluntary contributions by Jews throughout the ancient world. Being a member of the house of Hillel and thus a descendant of King David, the Patriarch, known in Hebrew as the Nasi (prince), enjoyed almost royal authority.[12] Their functions were political rather than religious, though their influence was not limited to the secular realm.[12] The Patriarchate attained its zenith under Judah ha-Nasi who compiled the Mishnah,[12] a compendium of views from Judean thought leaders of Judaism other than the Torah.
President
Term in office
Yose ben Yoezer 170 BCE 140 BCE
Joshua ben Perachyah 140 BCE 100 BCE
Simeon ben Shetach 100 BCE 60 BCE
Shmaya 65 BCE c. 31 BCE
Hillel the Elder c. 31 BCE 9 CE
Rabban Shimon ben Hillel 9 9
Rabban Shammai 9 30
Rabban Gamaliel the Elder 30 50
Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel 50 80
Rabban Gamaliel II of Yavne 80 118
Rabbi Eleazar ben Azariah 118 120
Interregnum (Bar Kokhba revolt) 120 142
Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel II 142 165
Rabbi Judah I HaNasi (ThePresident) 165 220
Gamaliel III 220 230
Judah II Nesi'ah 230 270
Gamaliel IV 270 290
Judah III Nesi'ah 290 320
Hillel II 320 365
Gamaliel V 365 385
Judah IV 385 400
Gamaliel VI c. 400 425
Revival attempts[edit]
See also: Semicha § Attempts to revive classical semicha
The Sanhedrin is traditionally viewed as the last institution that commanded universal Jewish authority among the Jewish people in the long chain of tradition from Moses until the present day. Since its dissolution in 358 CE by imperial decree, there have been several attempts to re-establish this body either as a self-governing body, or as a puppet of a sovereign government.
There are records of what may have been of attempts to reform the Sanhedrin in Arabia,[26] in Jerusalem under the Caliph 'Umar,[26] and in Babylon (Iraq),[27] but none of these attempts were given any attention by Rabbinic authorities and little information is available about them.
Napoleon Bonaparte's "Grand Sanhedrin"[edit]
Main article: Napoleon Bonaparte's "Grand Sanhedrin"
Medallion struck in honor of the "Grand Sanhedrin" convened by Emperor Napoleon I of France.
The "Grand Sanhedrin" was a Jewish high court convened by Napoleon I to give legal sanction to the principles expressed by the Assembly of Notables in answer to the twelve questions submitted to it by the government (see Jew. Encyc. v. 468, s.v. France).
On October 6, 1806, the Assembly of Notables issued a proclamation to all the Jewish communities of Europe, inviting them to send delegates to the Sanhedrin, to convene on October 20. This proclamation, written in Hebrew, French, German, and Italian, speaks in extravagant terms of the importance of this revived institution and of the greatness of its imperial protector. While the action of Napoleon aroused in many Jews of Germany the hope that, influenced by it, their governments also would grant them the rights of citizenship, others looked upon it as a political contrivance. When in the war against Prussia (1806–07) the emperor invaded Poland and the Jews rendered great services to his army, he remarked, laughing, "The sanhedrin is at least useful to me."[citation needed] David Friedländer and his friends in Berlin described it as a spectacle that Napoleon offered to the Parisians.
Modern attempts in Israel[edit]
Main article: Modern attempts to revive the Sanhedrin
Since the dissolution of the Sanhedrin in 358 CE,[28] there has been no universally recognized authority within Halakha. Maimonides (1135–1204) was one of the greatest scholars of the Middle Ages, and is arguably one of the most widely accepted scholars among the Jewish people since the closing of the Talmud in 500. Influenced by the rationalist school of thought and generally showing a preference for a natural (as opposed to miraculous) redemption for the Jewish people, Maimonides proposed a rationalist solution for achieving the goal of re-establishing the highest court in Jewish tradition and reinvesting it with the same authority it had in former years. There have been several attempts to implement Maimonides' recommendations, the latest being in modern times.
There have been rabbinical attempts to renew Semicha and re-establish a Sanhedrin by Rabbi Jacob Berab in 1538, Rabbi Yisroel Shklover in 1830, Rabbi Aharon Mendel haCohen in 1901, Rabbi Zvi Kovsker in 1940 and Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon in 1949.
In October 2004 (Tishrei 5765), a group of rabbis representing varied Orthodox communities in Israel undertook a ceremony in Tiberias,[29] where the original Sanhedrin was disbanded, in which it claimed to re-establish the body according to the proposal of Maimonides and the Jewish legal rulings of Rabbi Yosef Karo. The controversial attempt has been subject to debate within different Jewish communities.
See also[edit]
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Council of Jamnia
Beth din shel Kohanim
Great Assembly – or Anshei Knesset HaGedolah (hebr. "Men of the Great Assembly")
Magnum Concilium, a similar body in medieval England
Synedrion, a general term for judiciary organs of Greek and Hellenistic city states and treaty organisations.
Tombs of the Sanhedrin
References[edit]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Jews". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Jump up ^ "Greek Lexicon :: G4892 (KJV)". Blue Letter Bible.
Jump up ^ (Exodus 18:21–22) (Numbers 11:16–17) (Numbers 11:24–25) (Deuteronomy 1:15–18) (Deuteronomy 17:9–12)
Jump up ^ The Mishnah (Sanhedrin 1:6)
Jump up ^ Numbers 35:24–5.
Jump up ^ The Hebrew term "community" appears in Numbers 14:27; i.e., the 10 spies who had spread a bad report about the land, thus a "community" is 10 men.
Jump up ^ Exodus 23:2
Jump up ^ In general usage, "The Sanhedrin" without qualifier normally refers to the Great Sanhedrin.
^ Jump up to: a b Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews, Chaim Potok, Knopf, New York, p. 191.
Jump up ^ Mantel, Hugo. (1972) "Sanhedrin". in Encyclopaedia Judaica. Jerusalem: Macmillan. 14, p. 836
Jump up ^ "Catholic Encyclopedia - Sanhedrin". Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
Jump up ^ Jack N. Lightstone; Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion (13 May 2002). Mishnah and the social formation of the early Rabbinic Guild: a socio-rhetorical approach. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-88920-375-4. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
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Jump up ^ Babylonian Talmud: Sanhedrin 2a.
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^ Jump up to: a b The Persian conquest of Jerusalem in 614 compared with Islamic conquest of 638
Jump up ^ Sefer Yuchsin, cf. Yarchei Kallah, Rabbi Nassan describes "the seventy judges who comprise the Sanhedrin".
Jump up ^ The dissolution of the Sanhedrin, in terms of its power to give binding universal decisions, is usually dated to 358 CE when Hillel II's Jewish Calendar was adopted. This marked the last universally accepted decision made by that body.
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Bibliography[edit]
Chen, S.J.D., "Patriarchs and Scholarchs," PAAJR 48 (1981), 57-85.
Goodman, M., "The Roman State and the Jewish Patriarch in the Third Century," in L.I. Levnie (ed.), The Galilee in late Antiquity (New York, 1992), 127.39.
Habas (Rubin), E., "Rabban Gamaliel of Yavneh and his Sons: The Patriarchate before and after the Bar Kokhva Revolt," JJS 50 (1999), 21-37.
Levine, L.I., "The Patriarch (Nasi) in Third-Century Palestine," ANRW 2.19.2 (1979), 649-88.
External links[edit]
Wikisource has the text of the 1905 New International Encyclopedia article Sanhedrin.
Secular and religious history of the Jewish Sanhedrin
English web site of the re-established Jewish Sanhedrin in Israel
The Jewish Court System by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan
Jewish Encyclopedia: "Sanhedrin"
Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Sanhedrin". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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