Abba Jose ben Hanan or Abba Jose ben Hanin (Hebrew;
Aramaic
The Aramaic languages, short Aramaic ( syc, ܐܪܡܝܐ, Arāmāyā; oar, 𐤀𐤓𐤌𐤉𐤀; arc, 𐡀𐡓𐡌𐡉𐡀; tmr, אֲרָמִית), are a language family containing many varieties (languages and dialects) that originated in ...
: Abba bar Hanan) was a
tanna who lived in
Judea
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. His name occurs also as "Abba Jose ben Hanan," or "ben Johanan" (which is erroneously followed by "ish Yerushalayim"), "Abba Joseph," and "Abba Issi."
He appears to have engaged in a halachic discussion with
Eliezer ben Jacob
Eliezer ben Jacob I (Hebrew: אליעזר בן יעקב) was a tannaim, Tanna of the 1st century; contemporary of Eleazar Chisma and Eliezer ben Hyrcanus, and senior to Judah ben Ilai.
Of his personal history nothing is known, except that he had ...
and of
Hanina ben Antigonus
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Antigonus'') was Jewish rabbi of the third generation of tannaim.
He was of priestly descent, and a contemporary of Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Yishmael.
...
on the subject of Temple practices, which would suggest he lived in the late 1st or early 2nd centuries CE. However, he also transmitted an
aggadah
Aggadah ( he, ''ʾAggāḏā'' or ''Haggāḏā''; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אַגָּדְתָא ''ʾAggāḏəṯāʾ''; "tales, fairytale, lore") is the non-legalistic exegesis which appears in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, ...
of
Abba Kohen Bardela who lived around the year 200 CE, which would place Jose at the same time or later. On this basis, scholar Aharon Heimann concluded that there were two scholars by this name, living at different times.
Teachings
Jose's halakhot are also mentioned in
Sifre
Sifre ( he, סִפְרֵי; ''siphrēy'', ''Sifre, Sifrei'', also, ''Sifre debe Rab'' or ''Sifre Rabbah'') refers to either of two works of ''Midrash halakha'', or classical Jewish legal biblical exegesis, based on the biblical books of Numbers a ...
, Numbers 8; Middot 2:6; and
Sotah
Sotah ( he, סוֹטָה or he, שׂוֹטָה) is a tractate of the Talmud in Rabbinic Judaism. The tractate explains the ordeal of the bitter water, a trial by ordeal of a woman suspected of adultery, which is prescribed by the Book of Number ...
20b. He transmitted an aggadah by
Shmuel haKatan
Shmuel ha-Katan (literally ''Samuel the Small'', or ''Samuel the Lesser'') was a Babylonian Jew considered a great early religious scholar. He was one of the second generation of Tannaim, who served under the patriarch Gamliel II of Yavneh, durin ...
. A teaching of Jose's, rebuking the
priestly families
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* Priestly source, one of the propos ...
that acted violently toward the people, transmitted by
Abba Saul ben Batnit
Abba Saul ben Batnit ( he, אבא שאול בן בטנית, "''Abba Shaul ben Batnit''") was a Tanna of the latter period of the Second Temple of Jerusalem, approximately two generations before the temple's destruction. He used to take question ...
, reads as follows: "Woe unto me for the
house of Boethus and their rods; woe unto me for the house of Hanin and their calumnious whispering; woe unto me for the house of Qatros and their pens; woe unto me for the house of
Ishmael ben Phabi
Ishmael ben Fabus also known as Ishmael ben Phiabi and Ishmael ben Phabi () was a High Priest of Israel in the 1st century CE.
He was High Priest of Israel from 15 CE to 16 CE under the Roman procurator, Valerius Gratus, and is thought to be th ...
and their fists."
In
Yebamot
Yevamot ( he, יבמות, "Brother's Widow", also pronounced Yevamos, or Yavmus) is a tractate of the Talmud that deals with, among other concepts, the laws of Yibbum (, loosely translated in English as levirate marriage), and, briefly, with conv ...
53b an "Abba Jose b. Johanan" ("b. Hanan" in
Rashi
Shlomo Yitzchaki ( he, רבי שלמה יצחקי; la, Salomon Isaacides; french: Salomon de Troyes, 22 February 1040 – 13 July 1105), today generally known by the acronym Rashi (see below), was a medieval French rabbi and author of a compre ...
) is mentioned as having transmitted a halakhah of Rabbi Meir, who lived a century later. Bacher therefore supposes that the author of the teaching quoted above was
Abba Shaul ben Botnit
Abba Saul ben Batnit ( he, אבא שאול בן בטנית, "''Abba Shaul ben Batnit''") was a Tanna of the latter period of the Second Temple of Jerusalem, approximately two generations before the temple's destruction. He used to take question ...
, and that it was transmitted by the Abba Jose of Yebamot.
[''Cf., e.g.,'' Büchler, ''Die Priester und der Cultus,'' p. 30.]
References
Its bibliography:
**Bacher, in ''R. E. J.'' xxxvii. 299;
**Heilprin, ''Seder ha-Dorot'', ii.
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