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 Amoraim followed the Tannaim in the sequence of ancient Jewish scholars.

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.

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.

The rabbis who contributed to the Mishnah are known as the Tannaim, of whom approximately 120 are known.

There are those who attribute Sifra diTzni ` uta to the patriach Yaakov ; however, Rabbi Eliezer Tzvi of Kamarno in his book Zohar Chai wrote, " Sifra diTzni ` uta was composed by Rashbi ... and he arranged from baraitas which were transmitted to Tannaim from mount Sinai from the days of Moshe, similar to the way Rabeinu HaKadosh arranged the six orders of Mishnah from that which was repeated from before.

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

; 70 – 200: Period of the Tannaim, rabbis who organized and elucidated the Jewish oral law.

He was one of the second generation of Tannaim, who served under the patriarch Gamliel II of Yavneh, during the last two decades of the 1st century CE.

The rabbis recorded in the Mishnah are known as Tannaim.

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

A Tanna ( plural, Tannaim ) is a rabbinic sage whose views are recorded in the Mishnah.

The notion of infallibility in Judaism as it relates to the Tannaim and Amaraim of the Talmud, as well as the Rishonim, Achronim and modern day Gedolim is one surrounded by debate.

Anonymous Baraitot are often attributed to particular Tannaim by the Talmud.

The Tannaim, as teachers of the Oral Law, were direct transmitters of an oral tradition passed from teacher to student that was written and codified as the basis for the Mishnah, Tosefta, and tannaitic teachings of the Talmud.

After he adopted a worldview considered heretical by his fellow Tannaim and betrayed his people, the rabbis of the Talmud refrained from relating teachings in his name and referred to him as the " Other One " (, ).

" The plural, " hakhamim ," is generally used in the Talmud, and also by the Tannaim, to designate the majority of scholars as against a single authority.

The Tosefta often attributes laws that are anonymous in the Mishnah to named Tannaim.

The decisions of the Tannaim are contained in the Mishnah, Beraita, Tosefta, and various Midrash compilations.

The name of an important 2nd century CE sage — Ishmael ben Elisha, known as " Rabbi Ishmael " ( רבי ישמעאל ), one of the Tannaim — indicates that the Biblical Ishmael enjoyed a positive image among Jews of the time.

The latter's son Huna is then mentioned as successor, being the fourth exilarch of that name ; he died in 441, according to a trustworthy source, the " Seder Tannaim wa-Amoraim.

The origins of modern Jewish prayer were established during the period of the Tannaim, " from their traditions, later committed to writing, we learn that the generation of rabbis active at the time of the destruction of the Second Temple ( 70 C. E.

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

The Gemara mainly focuses on elucidating and elaborating the opinions of the Tannaim.

The traditional Rabbinic view is that most of the Zohar and the parts included in it ( i. e. those parts mentioned above ) were written and compiled by Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, but some parts preceded Rashbi and he used them ( such as Sifra deTzni ` uta ; see above ), and some parts were written or arranged in generations after Rashbi's passing ( for example, Tannaim after Rashbi's time are occasionally mentioned ).

The rabbis of the Mishnah are known as Tannaim ( sing.

( By contrast, the Mishnah states concluded legal opinions-and often differences in opinion between the Tannaim.

The first period was that of the Tannaim ( from the Aramaic word for " repeat ;" the Aramaic root TNY is equivalent to the Hebrew root SNY, which is the basis for " Mishnah.

The Sages of the Mishnah known as the Tannaim, from the 1st and 2nd centuries of the common era, were known by the title Rabbi, for example Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Shimon bar Yochoy.

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.

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 " 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.