Against Enki's wish the Gods decide to slay Kingu, and Enki finally consents to use Kingu's blood to make the first human, with whom Enki always later has a close relationship, the first of the seven sages, seven wise men or " Abgallu " (* Ab

Liu Ling, Ruan Ji, Ruan Xian, Xiang Xiu, Wang Rong and Shan Tao were the other six sages who made up the group, besides Xi Kang, who was especially close to Ruan Ji ; their relationship was described as " stronger than metal and fragrant as orchids ".

It depicts pagan sages at the foot of the Tree of Jesse, with Galen between the Sibyl and Aristotle.

The Mishnah reflects debates between 1st century BCE and 2nd century CE by the group of rabbinic sages known as the Tannaim.

The Talmud is a re-presentation of the Torah through " sustained analysis and argument " with " unfolding dialogue and contention " between rabbinic sages.

The rift between the priests and the sages developed during this time, when Jews faced new political and cultural struggles.

The sages of the Talmud see a direct link between themselves and the Pharisees, and historians generally consider Pharisaic Judaism to be the progenitor of Rabbinic Judaism, that is normative, mainstream Judaism after the destruction of the Second Temple.

This is based on the citation of numerous parallels between the lives of the two sages, as well as the fact that the names " Nachman ben Simcha " ( Simcha being Rebbe Nachman's father's name ) and " Shimon ben Yochai " share the same gematria ( numerical value ) of 501.

The Rosicrucian Fellowship and kindred groups of rosicrucianists, promulgating an Esoteric Christian viewpoint, hold that the Rosicrucian Brotherhood was founded in the early 14th century, or between the 13th and 14th centuries, as an Invisible College of mystic sages, by a highly evolved entity having the symbolic name of Christian Rosenkreuz in order " to prepare a new phase of the Christian religion to be used during the coming age now at hand, for as the world and man evolve so also must religion change ".

As a part of his teaching, he narrates an ancient dialogue between a group of sages known as the s and Kratu.

This culminates in a passage bringing together Laurence Binyon's dictum slowness is beauty, the San Ku, or three sages, figures from the Chou King who are responsible for the balance between heaven and earth, Jacques de Molay, the golden section, a room in the church of St. Hilaire, Poitiers built to that rule where one can stand without throwing a shadow, Mencius on natural phenomena, the 17th-century English mystic John Heydon ( who Pound remembered from his days working with Yeats ) and other images relating to the worship of light including "' MontSegur, sacred to Helios ".

Oak and his followers also claim that between the ages of 13 and 30 Jesus went to India to learn from Vedic and Hindu sages about the " way of Krishna.

" Jesus went to India between ages 13 and 30 to learn Krishna-neeti ( Christianity ) from sages.

Others disagree with Ginzberg, suggesting that he failed to account for the regular travel of sages between Judea and Babylonia to collect and transmit scholarly teachings.

Secular scholars see the discrepancy between the traditional and secular date of the destruction of the First Temple arising as a result of Jewish sages missing out the reign lengths of several Persian kings during the Persian Empire's rule over Israel.

35 Phoenix-squares 4 if., I ); the difference between prophets and sages is that the former do not regard the ritual as of divine appointment ( Jeremiah 7: 22 ) and oppose it as non-moral, while the latter, probably accepting the law as divine, by laying stress on the universal side of religion, it deemphasizes the local and mechanical side ( see Ecclus.

In another instance, Rabbi Joshua praises her intervention in a debate between Rabbi Tarfon and the sages, saying " Bruriah has spoken correctly " ( Tosefta Keilim Bava Metzia 1: 3 ).

These sages include poet Carl Sandburg, statesman Jawaharlal Nehru and sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, in Volume One, and playwright Sean O'Casey, David Ben-Gurion, philosopher Bertrand Russell and the late Frank Lloyd Wright in the second set.

Later Karaite sages are highly critical of ben David, leading some modern scholars to believe that Ananism was separate from Karaism.

Most scholars and some Karaites maintain that it was founded at least in part by Anan ben David, whereas other Karaites believe that they are not the historical disciples of Anan ben David at all, and point out that many of their later sages ( such as Ya ' acov Al-Kirkisani ) argued that most of Anan's teachings were " derived from Rabbanite Lore ".

Although the list of sages sometimes varies, the ones usually included are the following:

In the same period, the council of sages known as the Sanhedrin may have codified and canonized the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh ), from which, following the return from Babylon, the Torah was read publicly on market-days.

Followers of these two sages dominated scholarly debate over the following decades.

In the late 18th century, Karl von Eckartshausen, a German Christian mystic, describes the true Adepts of the Rose Cross in the following terms: " These sages, whose number is small, are children of light, and are opposed to darkness.

Frequent features of Taoist shrines include the same features as full temples, often including any or all of the following features: gardens, running water or fountains, small burning braziers or candles ( with or without incense ), and copies of Taoist texts such as the Tao Te Ching, Zhuangzi or other texts by Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu or other Taoist sages.

Mentioned by name are the following sages: Ātreya, Hārīta, Parāśara, Bhela, Garga, Śāmbavya, Suśruta, Vasiṣṭha, Karāla, and Kāpya.

In the Babylonian Talmud, a number of sages opined that following Jewish law, doing charitable deeds, and studying Jewish texts is greater than performing animal sacrifices.

The aphorism has been attributed to at least the following ancient Greek sages:

The matter is not so: For Rabbi Akiba was a great scholar of the sages of the Mishnah, and he was the assistant-warrior of the king Ben Coziba Simon bar Kokhba ...

* The Tannaim ( literally the " repeaters ") are the sages of the Mishnah ( 0 – 200 )

For the sages of the Mishnah and Talmud, and for their successors today, the study of Torah was therefore not merely a means to learn the contents of God's revelation, but an end in itself.

The Mishnah refers to four signs provided by the sages.

This usually indicates that many sages taught so, or that Judah haNasi ( often called " Rabbi ") who redacted the Mishnah together with his academy / court ruled so.

No single tractate of the key Rabbinic texts, the Mishnah and the Talmud, is devoted to theological issues ; these texts are concerned primarily with interpretations of Jewish law, and anecdotes about the sages and their values.

" Thus, Tannaim are " Mishnah teachers "), the sages who repeated and thus passed down the Oral Torah.

During this period rabbis finalized the canonization of the Tanakh, and in 200 Judah haNasi edited together Tannaitic judgements and traditions into the Mishna, considered by the rabbis to be the definitive expression of the Oral Torah ( although some of the sages mentioned in the Mishnah are Pharisees who lived prior to the destruction of the Second Temple, or prior to the Bar Kozeba Revolt, most of the sages mentioned lived after the revolt ).

The Tannaim ( Hebrew:, singular, Tanna " repeaters ", " teachers ") were the Rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah, from approximately 10-220 CE.

Probably many Zealots were sicarii simultaneously, and they may be the biryonim of the Talmud that were feared even by the Jewish sages of the Mishnah.

It contains sayings attributed to sages from Simon the Just ( 200 BCE ) to shortly after Judah haNasi ( 200 CE ), redactor of the Mishnah.

The Mishnaic Hebrew language or Early Rabbinic Hebrew language is one direct ancient descendant of Biblical Hebrew as preserved by the Jews after the Babylonian captivity, and definitively recorded by Jewish sages in writing the Mishnah and other contemporary documents.

This tradition was continued by the sages of the Mishnah and Talmud who often headed academies with hundreds of students.

With the demise of ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah and coinciding with the revolt of the Maccabees against ancient Greece and later Jewish-Roman wars, the sages of the Mishnah and subsequently the Talmud, referred to as the Oral Law in Judaism, took on a growing and central leadership roles.

" The sages presented their drashot in a style by which the mind of a fool will reject them because of his way of thinking ; it is improper to assign any deficiency to the drash — one may rather suspect that the deficiency is a result of his intellectual shortcomings " ( Commentary on the Mishnah: Introduction ).