tanna
noun
one of a group of Jewish scholars, active in Palestine during the 1st and 2nd centuries a.d., whose teachings are found chiefly in the Mishnah.
tannaim
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pluralof tanna.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Judaism in the first centuries of the Christian era, the age of the tannaim.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1958 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
