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Etymologically, Sanhedrin is a late Hebrew representation of the Greek word synedrion συνέδριον meaning "sitting together" as a legislative assembly or Senate.
 
  
It is interesting to note that several aspects of the U.S. Senate, including the semi-circle seating of the senators, were derived from the Jewish Sanhedrin by the Founding Fathers of the U.S. Constitution.  The Jewish Sanhedrin is a governmental body that resembles aspects of both the U.S. Senate and the Supreme Court.
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==Fundamental Documents==
  
The make-up of the council includes a President - Nasi, Chancellor - Av beis din, and sixty-nine general members who all sit in the form of a semi-circle when in session. Decisions are made by majority vote. The constitution of seventy-one is to preclude the possibility of a tie.  Members of the Sanhedrin are not elected, nor is their position permanent.  Any scholar, at any time, may gain a place on the legislature by proving a greater level of scholarship in Jewish Law than a current member of the legislature.
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* [[Fundamental Documents]]
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==Current Leadership in Jewish Law==
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* [[Current Halakhic Leadership]]
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==Jurisprudence==
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* [[The Oral Law and its relation to the Written Law]]
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* [[Traditional Laws without any exegetical basis in the Torah]]
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* [[The Categories of Oral Law]]
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* [[Authority for rulings based on logical inferences]]
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* [[Enactments deduced from post-Mosaic Books]]
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* [[Takkanoth (Enactments) and Gezeroth (Decrees)]]
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* [[Gezeroth in chronological order]]
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* [[Enactments promulgated by post-Biblical authorities]]
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* [[Enactments handed down from anonymous authorities]]
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* [[The Takkanoth in chronological order]]
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* [[Enactments promulgated by the Nesiyyim (Princes) and the Sanhedrin (Supreme Court)]]
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* [[Rabbinic Enactments unanimously adopted]]
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* [[Enactments the binding force of which was later relaxed]]
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* [[A Summary of the various categories of the Oral Law]]
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* [[Rulings established by the usage of the People]]
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* [[Miscellaneous rabbinical Ordinances]]
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* [[The Aggadah — a general outline of its main aspects]]
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* [[Aggadoth received by tradition]]
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* [[The thirty-two Middoth (Rules) employed by the Aggadah]]
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* [[The Praise of the Righteous and the Condemnation of the Wicked in the Aggadah]]
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* [[The Quoting of various persons under one and the same name]]
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* [[The Method of expounding the names of persons]]
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* [[Support in history for 'Tradition' handed down by the Great Assembly]]
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* [[Divine Providence in the Aggadah]]
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* [[Alterations in textual reading as a specific device in homiletic expositions]]
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* [[Aggadoth aimed at inspiring and stirring the curiousity of the People]]
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* [[Aggadoth expressing profound ideas in figurative style]]
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* [[Aggadoth relating the performance of mriacles]]
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* [[The Parables of the Aggadah — illustrations pointing a moral]]
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* [[The Aggadic use of hyperbole and the employment of numbers figuratively; also Biblical quotations in the Aggadah which are at variance with the Massoretic text]]
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* [[Demons, witchcraft, incantations, dreams, and planetary influences, medical prescriptions, and curative methods in the Aggadah]]
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* [[The contradictory views regarding the Aggadah and its place in talmudic teaching]]
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* [[Dates of completion of the Mishnah and Talmud ]]
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==History==
  
 
* [[Historical Overview|Secular and religious history of the Jewish Sanhedrin]]
 
* [[Historical Overview|Secular and religious history of the Jewish Sanhedrin]]
* [[Newly discovered ruins of the Sanhedrin at Tiberias (Spring 2005)]]
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* [[The Title Nasi in Jewish Tradition]]
* [[Archaeological program to explore all ten locations of the Sanhedrin]]
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* [[The Sanhedrin in Rabbinic & Greek Sources]]
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* [[The Titles Ab Bet Din, Hakam and Mufla]]
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* [[The Removals of the Sanhedrin from Jabneh to Usha]]
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* [[The Offices of the Nasi; Jesus, Paul, and the Sanhedrin]]
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* [[On the Reliability of Rabbinic Sources]]
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* [[Capital Cases Outside Jerusalem.]]
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==Archeology==
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* [[Newly discovered ruins of the Sanhedrin at Tiberias]] (Spring 2005)
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* [http://www.telyavne.com/ Archaeological program to explore all ten locations of the Sanhedrin]
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==References==
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Revision as of 13:02, 3 March 2008

Fundamental Documents

Current Leadership in Jewish Law

Jurisprudence

History

Archeology

References