It came after the period of the Zugot (" pairs "), and was immediately followed by the period of the Amoraim (" interpreters ")

He occupies a middle position between the Tannaim and the Amoraim, and is accorded the right, rarely conceded to one who is only an ' amora, of disputing the opinion of a tanna ( Bava Batra 42a and elsewhere ).

In so doing, the Gemara will highlight semantic disagreements between Tannaim and Amoraim ( often ascribing a view to an earlier authority as to how he may have answered a question ), and compare the Mishnaic views with passages from the Baraita.

During the period of the Tannaim ( rabbis cited in the Mishna ), the spoken vernacular of Jews in Judaea was a late form of Hebrew known as Rabbinic or Mishnaic Hebrew, whereas during the period of the Amoraim ( rabbis cited in the Gemara ), which began around 200 CE, the spoken vernacular was Aramaic.

The book Ra ` aya Meheimna, the title of which means " The Faithful Shepherd ," and which is by far the largest " book " included in the book of the Zohar, is what Moshe, the " Faithful Shepherd ," teaches and reveals to Rashbi and his friends, who include Tannaim and Amoraim.

The analysis of the Amoraim is generally focused on clarifying the positions, words and views of the Tannaim.

The gemara records the semantic disagreements between Tannaim and Amoraim.

The Tannaim were direct transmitters of uncodified oral tradition ; the Amoraim expounded upon and clarified the oral law after its initial codification.

Biblical interpretation by the Tannaim and the Amoraim, which may be best designated as scholarly interpretations of the Midrash, was a product of natural growth and of great freedom in the treatment of the words of the Bible.

The Tannaim and Amoraim who recorded the accounts in the Talmud and Tosefta use the term Yeshu as a designation in Sanhedrin 103a and Berakhot 17b in place of King Manasseh's real name.

Whereas the Pharisees were one sect among several others in the Second Temple era, the Amoraim and Tannaim sought to establish Rabbinic Judaism as the normative form of Judaism.

among several others in the Second Temple era, the Amoraim and Tannaim sought to establish Rabbinic Judaism as the normative form of Judaism.

Pinsker, Grätz, and Adolf Neubauer saw in him a Karaite missionary endeavoring to discredit the Talmud by his statement that the four tribes did not know the names of the Tannaim and Amoraim, and that their halakot were different from those of the Talmud.

The Aggadah of the Amoraim ( sages of the Talmud ) is the continuation of that of the Tannaim ( sages of the Mishna ).

It is thus evident that, according to the only authority extant in regard to the subject, the tradition of the Tannaim and the Amoraim, the activity of this assembly was confined to the period of the Persian rule, and thus to the first thirty-four years of the Second Temple, and that afterward, when Simon the Just was its only survivor, there was no other fixed institution which could be regarded as a precursor of the academies.

To one of these additions — that to an ancient utterance concerning the " Book of Adam, the First Man ,"— this statement is appended: " Ashi and Ravina are the last representatives of independent decision ( hora ' ah )", an evident reference to the work of these two in editing the Babylonian Talmud, which as an object of study and a fountainhead of practical " decision " was to have the same importance for the coming generations as the Mishnah had had for the Amoraim.

The rest, including the discussions of the Amoraim and the overall framework of the Gemara, is in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic.

The Jewish Amoraim attributed the destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem as punishment from God for the " baseless hatred " that pervaded Jewish society at the time.

The " Stammaim " is a term that has been coined by some modern scholars for the rabbis who submitted anonymous comments on the Talmud, some of whom contributed during the period of the Amoraim, but most who made their contributions after the amoraic period.

While other scholars had also treated the Talmud as a multi-layered work, Halivni's innovation ( primarily in the second volume of his Mekorot u-Mesorot ) was to distinguish between the onymous statements, which are generally succinct Halachic rulings or inquiries attributed to known Amoraim, and the anonymous statements, characterised by a much longer analysis often consisting of lengthy dialectic discussion, which he attributed to the later authors-" Stamma ' im " ( or Savora ' im ).

As a haggadist, Rav is surpassed by none of the Babylonian Amoraim.

The midrash on Exodus that was known to the Amoraim is not the same as our current mekhilta ; their version was only the core of what later grew into the present form.

The Gemara frequently refers to these tannaitic statements in order to compare them to those contained in the Mishnah and to support or refute the propositions of Amoraim.

The rabbis of the Gemara are referred to as Amoraim ( sing.

Some of these debates were actually conducted by the Amoraim, though many of them are hypothetically reconstructed by the Talmud's redactors.

This analysis is often described as " mathematical " in approach ; Adin Steinsaltz makes the analogy of the Amoraim as scientists investigating the Halakha, where the Tanakh, Mishnah, Tosefta and midrash are the phenomena studied.

The close relation which existed in earlier times ( from the Soferim to the Amoraim inclusive ) between the teacher of tradition and the Masorete, both frequently being united in one person, accounts for the Exegetical Masorah.

The Mishna in the beginning of Avot and ( in more detail ) Maimonides in his Introduction to Mishneh Torah records a chain of tradition ( mesorah ) from Moses at Mount Sinai down to R ' Ashi, redactor of the Talmud and last of the Amoraim.

The second period is that of the Amoraim ( from the Aramaic word for " speaker ") rabbis and their students who continued to debate legal matters and discuss the meaning of the books of the Bible.

" Jacob Neusner, however, states that the Amoraim had no ultimate power in their communities.

Amoraim ( Aramaic :; plural אמוראים, sig.

The first Babylonian Amoraim were Abba Arika, respectfully referred to as Rav, and his contemporary and frequent debate partner, Shmuel.

Among the earliest Amoraim in Israel were Rabbi Yochanan and Shimon ben Lakish.

The last Amoraim are generally considered to be Ravina I and Rav Ashi, and Ravina II, nephew of Ravina I, who codified the Babylonian Talmud around 500 CE.

The following is an abbreviated listing of the most prominent of the ( hundreds of ) Amoraim mentioned in the Talmud.

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