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Akiba ben Joseph

American  
[ah-kee-bah ben joh-zuhf, -suhf, uh-kee-vuh] / ɑˈki bɑ bɛn ˈdʒoʊ zəf, -səf, əˈki və /

noun

  1. a.d. c50–c135, rabbi and scholar: systematizer of Jewish oral law on which the Mishnah is based.

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To the older generation of Halachists succeeded a set of men headed by Akiba ben Joseph, who, ignoring practical issues, evolved laws from the Bible text or from traditions held to be divine.

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Akiba ben Joseph and Akiba ben Joseph in Legend; Myers, Story of the Jewish People, pp. 171-188; and Geiger, Judaism and its History, p.

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