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TANNA (Aramaic, " teacher ")

TANNA (Aramaic, " teacher ") . The .See also:

ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root teni or See also:

LENA

Lena corresponds philologically to the See also:

HEBREW

Hebrew shana, from which comes the word Mishnah (see See also:

MIDRASH

MIDRASH and See also:

TALMUD

TALMUD), the See also:

GREAT

great Rabbinic See also:

CODE (Lat. codex)

code which (with certain parts of the Midrash and other Rabbinic books) was the See also:

main See also:

LITERARY

literary product of the activity of the tannaim (plural of tanna). The See also:

TERM

term tanna is used in the Talmud of those teachers who flourished in the first two centuries of the See also:

Christian era. The tannaim from the date of the destruction of the See also:

Temple may be grouped: (1) 70-100, representative name Johanan See also:

BEN (from Old Eng. bennan, within)

ben Zaqqai (q.v.); (2) 100-130, representative name Aqiba (q.v.); (3) 130-160, representative name See also:

JUDAH

Judah the See also:

Prince, compiler of the Mishnah. The successors of the tannaim were called 'amoraim (see 'AMORA). See W. Bacher, See also:

Die Agada der Tannaiten. An alphabetical See also:

list of tannaim and 'amoraim is given in the Jewish Encyclopedia, xii. 49-54• (I.

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