Editing Tannaim (section)

== History==
The ''Tannaim'' operated under the occupation of the [[Roman Empire]]. During this time, the ''[[Kohen|Kohanim]]'' (priests) of the [[Second Temple|Temple]] became increasingly corrupt and were seen by the Jews as collaborators with the Romans, whose mismanagement of [[Iudaea province]] (composed of [[Samaria]], [[Idumea]] and [[Judea]] proper<ref>{{cite book | last=Malamat | first=A. | last2=Ben-Sasson | first2=H.H. | title=A History of the Jewish People | publisher=Harvard University Press | year=1976 | isbn=978-0-674-39731-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2kSovzudhFUC | access-date=2023-08-18|page=246|quote=When [[Herod Archelaus|Archelaus]] was deposed from the ethnarchy in 6 CE, Judea proper, Samaria and Idumea were converted into a Roman province under the name Iudaea.}}</ref>) led to riots, revolts and general resentment. 

Until the days of [[Hillel the Elder|Hillel]] and [[Shammai]], the last generation of the Zugot, there were few disagreements among Rabbinic scholars. After this period, though, the [[Houses of Hillel and Shammai]] came to represent two distinct perspectives on [[Halakha|Jewish law]], and disagreements between the two schools of thought are found throughout the [[Mishnah]].{{cn|date=January 2021}}

The ''Tannaim'', as teachers of the [[Oral Law]], are said to be direct transmitters of an oral tradition passed from teacher to student that was written and codified as the basis for the Mishnah, [[Tosefta]], and tannaitic teachings of the [[Talmud]]. According to rabbinic tradition, the ''Tannaim'' were the last generation in a long sequence of oral teachers that began with [[Moses]].

{{Quote|text=Early rabbinic Bible exegesis was preserved in tannaitic texts compiled in the second century CE or later, but is likely to contain much earlier material. It certainly contains some interpretations that can be traced back explicitly to the first century CE because of parallels with motifs found in the writings of [[Josephus]] or [[Philo]], such as the legend of the extraordinary beauty of Moses as a child.<ref>{{cite book |last=Goodman |first=Martin David |date=2018 |title=A History of Judaism |publisher=Princeton University Press |page=63 |isbn=978-0-691-18127-1 }}</ref>
|author=[[Martin Goodman (historian)|Martin David Goodman]]
|title=
|source=''A History of Judaism'' (2018)
}}