sanhedrin

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The assembly of seventy-one judges sitting in Jerusalem

An assembly of twenty-three judges appointed in every major city in Israel

{i} highest court of the ancient Jews during the Second Temple Period (ruled on administrative, judicial, and religious issues)

Jewish council that operated in Roman Palestine from the time of the Maccabees ( 165 BC) to the end of the patriarchate (AD 425). While the term refers to the supreme Jewish court, the Sanhedrin's exact composition and powers religious, judicial, and legislative are reported variously in different sources. It is mentioned in various books of the Bible (Mark, Luke, Acts) as having taken part in or adjudicated the trials of Jesus, St. Peter the Apostle, and St. John the Baptist. According to Talmudic sources, the Great Sanhedrin was a court of 71 sages that met on fixed occasions in the Temple of Jerusalem, acting as a religious legislative body, trial court, and administrator of rituals

It had jurisdiction of religious matters

the great council of the Jews, which consisted of seventy members, to whom the high priest was added

Relevante Übersetzungen

Supreme Sanhedrin

Jewish court in the days of the Second Temple, committee of elders

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San·hed·rin

Etymologie

() Hebrew סַנְהֶדְרִין‎ (sanhedrín, “Sanhedrin”), from Ancient Greek συνέδριον (synedrion, “sitting together, hence assembly or council”).