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• Sanhedrin
  • Completed revision of "Traditions of origin" section. Continue with a revision of "Function and procedures", remember to cite sources!
  • Add information about the different numbers of Judges that could convine for a proper Sanhedrin trail.
  • It might be nice to link Bible verses to eBible.org's chapter / verse anchored text.

• Add content to Jesus' Sanhedrin Trial, and Jesus' Roman Trial.

• Temple of Onias
  • Add an article about the to God, near Heleopholis created by Onias IV, as fortold in Isaiah 19.
  • Add a small blurb to Temple in Jerusalem and link to the Temple of Onias article.

• Add content to the Echad article.

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• Just some minor edits, here and their.

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[edit] Sanhedrin

Left off arround Tract Sanhedrin 3a

• In the functions and procedures section cover the small Sanhedrins. Remember to reitterate the three judge minimum.
  • Requirements to be a judge.
    • Judges must not be motivated by the prospect of monitary gain (cf. Exodus 18:21).
    • Judges had to be experts in the whole of the Torah (ref?)
  • Apparently towns of 230 or more where elligable to have their own small, 23-member, Sanhedrin (Sanhedrin 2b).
  • If possible, document the relationships between these lesser Sanhedrins, and the great 71 member Sanhedrin.
  • QUESTION: Is it possible for the 71-member Sanhedrin to be convened with less than 71; and what about less than 23?
  • Remember to document who needs to be present in any event for the make the session valid.
  • Cover the "court recorders", they are mentioned here.
  • Cover the jurisdictional limit of each court (types of cases they could preside over, and the limit of the punnishment they could meter out upon a defendant).
    • Cases that must be adjudicated by not less than three: [cf. Sanhedrin 2a]
      • Monetary cases arrising from larceny and mayhem.
        • I'm not sure if of indebtedness from a loan is covered, I'm not following the Talmudic passages well.
        • Claims for full or half damages
        • The repayment of the double, or four- or five-fold restitution
      • Rape
      • Seduction
      • Libel
        • The Talmud seems divided on the matter of lible, some sages felt that cases of lible should be tried before a 23-member court, as it may lead to a capital charge.
    • Cases that must be adjudicated by not less than twenty-three: [cf. Sanhedrin 2a]
      • Unatural intercorse, both the person and the beast where put on trial. [cf. Lev. 20:15-16]
      • The trial of an Ox (and his owner) in the even the Ox gored a persion. [cf. Ex 21:28-29]
      • The trial of a wolf, lion, bear, leopard, hyena, serpent charged with killing a human-being.
      • Trial of an entire tribe that has gone astray, that is, they have become idol worshipers.
      • Trial of a false prophet [cf. Dut 18:20]
      • Condemnation of a city [cf. Dut 13:13]
    • Twenty-Three the minimum pannel that can judge capital crimes
    • Cases that must be adjudicated by not less than seventy-one:
      • Trials involving the high-priest
      • Trials of charges lodged against the king. [need a reference]
      • Condemnation of a city
  • Remember to talk about the removal of the power of capitol punnishment (jus galdi [sp?]) from the Sanhedrin, by the Romans, include dates! Remember Missler's article on this.
    • The Sanhedrin lost the power, of capital punishment in 3788 (28 CE). Also see Gen. 49:10! [Find Josephus comments on this].
  • Religious obligations of the Sanhedrin:
• Have a "blow-by-blow" of how a Sanhedrin session was convined.
  • How was a case "filed" to be brought before the court?
  • Under what conditions (time of day, proximity to shabbat, a feast etc.) could a session be held?
  • Under what conditions could a member of the Sanhedrin not be permitted to preside over a case (close relation, known grudge, etc.?)
  • What where the rights of the accused?
    • Could a defendent be tried twice for the same instance of the same crime? (double-jepordy)
  • What where the rights of the plantif?
  • How where witnesses gathered?
  • Who could be a witness (eg. what about foregners, what about women? anybody expressly forbiddent to be a witness?)
  • How where witnesses examined?
    • How where blasphemy trials handled? (that is, how could a persion relate a blasphemy without being guilty of it himself?)
    • What is the oath a member of the Sanhedrin could speak, to compell a person to speak?
  • How where non-Hebrew speaking Jewish witnesses handled? (i.e. testemony translated in a fassion the rest of the court could accept)
  • What about cross examination, how was it handled?
  • Who's testemony was considered valid?
  • Specify invalid testemony (uncorroberated confession, testemony of an admitted accomplice, anybody else?)
  • What kinds of punnishment / restitution was metered out, and for what sorts of crimes where these legal remedees attached? (eg what is the punnishment for theft, for murder, etc.)
  • What about capital crimes, how where they handled?
  • How often where death sentances given out?
  • What about Manslaughter, how did Ancient Hebrew juriceprudence handle this problem?
  • If sombody was condemned to death, what precautions where put in place to allow for last minute evidence that might exhaunerate him?
  • Where there "dismissals" or where there only "guilty" and "not guilty" verdicts?
  • Did the Sanhedrin have the power to enact ex post facto laws?
• The disolution of the Sanhedrin
  • Durring the persicution of Constantinius (4097-4121; 337-361 CE), the sanhedrin was forced into hiding. [Find good sources for this]
  • The Sanhedrin was disbanded in 4118 (358 CE), the line of ordination was then broken.
• MISC
  • It's the Sanhedrins duity to recognize Messiah when he comes! (see: Isaiah 1:26-27)