Eleazar from Modiin
R. Eleazar from Modiin (also Eleazar from Modiin etc.) was a highly respected Jewish scholar of antiquity, is counted among the Tannaites of the second generation and worked in the second century AD. He is considered a student of Jochanan ben Sakkai and a contemporary of Jehoshua ben Chananja and Eliezer ben Hyrkanos .
He was particularly concerned with the Aggada , so that in the Mishna only a single sentence has come down to us ( Pirqe Abot III. 11), while many of his sayings are given in the Midrashim .
He is said to have been wrongly suspected of treason, killed by Bar Kochba with a kick. Shortly thereafter, the Betar fortress was conquered by the Hadrian troops, with Bar Kochba himself being killed.
literature
- Zacharias Frankel : Hodegetica , Leipzig 1859
- Weiss : dor dor ... , 1871 ff. (Volume II.)
- Brüll : Introduction to the Mishnah , Volume I., 1876
- Bacher : The Agada of the Tannaites , 1884 ff.
- Ludwig A. Rosenthal: Article Eleasar from Modin , in: Jüdisches Lexikon , Berlin 1927 (Volume II.)
- Hermann L. Strack and Günter Stemberger : Introduction in Talmud and Midrash , 7th edition, Beck, Munich 1982
- Solomon Schechter , Samuel Mendelsohn : Eleazar of Modi'im. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.
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| SURNAME | Eleazar from Modiin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Jewish scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century or 2nd century |
| DATE OF DEATH | uncertain: before 135 |