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Judah Ha-Nasi

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Judah Ha-Nasi (c. AD 135–c. 220)

Jewish scholar who with a number of colleagues edited the collection of writings known as the Mishnah, which formed the basis of the Talmud, in the 2nd century AD. He was a rabbi and president of the Sanhedrin (supreme religious court).
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Rabbi Judah Ha-Nasi, or Judah the Prince, is credited with being the compiler/editor of the Mishna and its most authoritative teacher.
The Precarious Ties That Bind Us: Sotah 2a by STONE, IRA F. / Cross Currents
6) It may well have been the case that, although Judah Ha-Nasi, editor of the Mishnah, did not share their antipathy towards Ben Sira, and may have been quite prepared to include even a specific quotation from that work, yet he may well have been totally unaware of the origin of that quotation by Rabbi Levitas, and may consequently have assumed it to have been an original statement by the latter.
Shmuel HaKatan and the political background to Avot 4:19 by Cohen, Jeffrey M. / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
 
 
 
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