Tannaim

n. (Judaism) group of Jewish sages/teachers who were active between 70 to 200 of the Christian era and their main literary product is the Mishnah wherein their views are recorded

n. (Judaism) person of a group of Jewish sages and teachers who were active between 70 to 200 of the Christian era and their main literary product is the Mishnah wherein their views are recorded

The tannaim (Hebrew: תנאים, singular תנא, tanna) were the Rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah, from approx. 70-200 CE. The period of the Tannaim, also referred to as the Mishnaic period, lasted about 130 years. It came after the period of the Zugot ("pairs"), and was immediately followed by the period of the Amoraim.
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Tannaim tanna'im (Hebrew) Teachers; initiated teachers among the Jews; adepts and Qabbalists who, says Blavatsky, were "the sole expounders of the hidden meaning contained in the Bible," said to be the first Qabbalists among the Jews, appearing at Jerusalem about the beginning of the 3rd century BC. (IU 2:220; 1:xxxiv).