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1 | Sanhedrin qualifications | Bible general Archive 2 | sheebie | 127938 | ||
What were the qualifications to be a member of the Sanhedrin court | ||||||
2 | Sanhedrin qualifications | Bible general Archive 2 | EdB | 127939 | ||
Thge Sanhedrin was the Jewish senate. To be a member of this polictical plum you needed to be from a family of power and presitage. Mostly you were born into this following your father. However as families achieve wealth and aquired power and influence they could eventually buy their way in. Much like politics today. Here is a brief history. There is lack of positive historical information as to the origin of the Sanhedrin. According to Jewish tradition (compare Sanhedrin 16) it was constituted by Moses (Numbers 11:16-24) and was reorganized by Ezra immediately after the return from exile (compare the Targum to Song 6:1). But there is no historical evidence to show that previous to the Greek period there existed an organized aristocratic governing tribunal among the Jews. Its beginning is to be placed at the period in which Asia was convulsed by Alexander the Great and his successors. The Hellenistic kings conceded a great amount of internal freedom to municipal communities, and Palestine was then practically under home rule, and was governed by an aristocratic council of Elders (1 Macc. 12:6; 2 Macc. 1:10; 2 Macc. 4:44; 2 Macc. 11:27; 3 Macc. 1:8; compare Josephus, Ant, XII, iii, 4; Ant., XIII, v, 8; Meghillath Taanith 10), the head of which was the hereditary high priest. The court was called , which in Greek always signifies an aristocratic body. Subsequently this developed into the Sanhedrin. During the Roman period (except for about 10 years at the time of Gabinius, who applied to Judea the Roman system of government; compare Marquardt, Romische Staatsverwaltung, I, 501), the Sanhedrin's influence was most powerful, the internal government of the country being practically in its hands (Ant., XX, x), and it was religiously recognized even among the Diaspora (compare Acts 9:2; Acts 22:5; Acts 26:12). According to Schurer (HJP, div II, volume 1, 171; GJV4, 236) the civil authority of the Sanhedrin, from the time of Archelaus, Herod the Great's son, was probably restricted to Judea proper, and for that reason, he thinks, it had no judicial authority over our Lord so long as He remained in Galilee (but see G.A. Smith, Jerusalem, I, 416). The Sanhedrin was abolished after the destruction of Jerusalem (70 AD). The - (court of judgment) in Jabneh (68-80), in Usah (80-116), in Shafran (140-63), in Sepphoris (163-93), in Tiberias (193-220), though regarded in the Talmud (compare - 31a) as having been the direct continuation of the Sanhedrin, had an essentially different character; it was merely an assembly of scribes, whose decisions had only a theoretical importance (compare 9 11). International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. EdB |
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