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Yavneh יבנה
Coastal-plain town that became the seat of the Sanhedrin and the center of rabbinic Judaism between 70 and 132 CE. Known in Greek and Roman sources as Jamnia.
I. Who
- Hebrew
- יבנה
- Also known as
- Jamnia, Iamnia
III. Where
- Modern location
- Yavne, Israel
IV. What
- Events
- The Great Revolt
V. How do we know
| Claim | Evidence | Confidence | Sources |
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| Yavneh (Jamnia) was a town of Judea attested in Greco-Roman sources; Vespasian stationed submissive Jews there during the war. | external | ★★★★☆ | |
| The Talmud recounts that Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai, smuggled out of besieged Jerusalem, asked of Vespasian: "Give me Yavneh and its sages" — the tradition's account of how the center of Torah passed from Jerusalem to Yavneh.
Aggadic narrative told in several versions; historians debate its details, but it is the tradition's charter for the Yavneh era.
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rabbinic | ★★★★☆ |
Referenced by: Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai, Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus, Rabbi Yehoshua ben Chananiah, Rabban Gamliel of Yavneh, Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah, Shmuel HaKatan, Academy of Yavneh