Years covered: 161-217

The creation of what would become the Talmud begins, as the remnants of the Jews of Judea attempt to streamline their oral and ritual laws in a written document. And who was the Antoninus of the Talmud? We look at the suspects.

Jews

• Shimon bar Yochai — X
• Rabban Shimon Ben Gamliel — X
• Rabbi Meir — X
• Judah Bar Ilai — X
• Rabbi Eleazar Ben Shamua — X
• Rabbi Yose Ben Halafta — X
• Elazar Ben Shimon — X
• Ishmael Ben Jose — X
• Judah haNasi — X
• Gamliel (Judah's son)
• Shimon (Judah's son)

Romans

• Antoninus Pius — X
• Marcus Aurelius — X
• Lucius Verus — X
• Commodus — X
• Marcus Severianus — X
• Avidius Cassius — X
• Julia Cassia Alexandra
• Lucilla — X
• Pertinax — X
• Didius Julianus — X
• Pescennius Niger — X
• Clodius Albinus — X
• Septimius Severus — X
• Geta — X
• Caracalla — X
• Cassius Dio

Greeks

• Alexander the Paphlagonian — X
• Galen — X
• Lucian of Samosata — X

Persians/Parthians

• Vologases IV

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Years covered: 136-161

There is no Temple, the Rabbis are fugitives, circumcision is illegal and the dead bodies of the Jews of Judea haven't even been buried yet. So Jews do what they've always done: start a school, and start again.

Jews

• Judah Hanasi (born during the Bar Kochba revolt)
• Shimon Ben Gamliel II (Judah's father, the Nasi at Usha)
• Judah Bar Ilai
• Rabbi Meir
• Beruria
• Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai
• Elazar ben Shimon (son of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai)
• Rabbi Jose Ben Halafta
• Elazar Ben Shamua
• Rabbi Natan
• Elisha Ben Abuya
• Hanania Ben Ahi Rav Yehoshua
• Trypho

Greeks

• Justin Martyr (Greek philosopher born in Judea, Christian apologist)
• Marcion of Sinope (from the Greek city of Sinope; died ~160)

Romans

• Hadrian x
• Lucius Aelius Commodus x
• Antoninus Pius x
• Marcus Aurelius
• Lucius Verus
• Suetonius

Sources

Babylonian Talmud (Bavli)

Berakhot 57b, 63a–b

Shabbat 33b, 49b, 118b 9.

Pesachim 118a

Chagigah 15b

Horayot 13b

Avodah Zarah 10a–11a, 18a–b ,44b 15.

Sanhedrin 14a, 39a, 91a–b

Kiddushin 71a, 72b

Jerusalem Talmud (Yerushalmi)

Berakhot 3:1

Yoma 3:7

Pesachim 4:1

Chagigah 2:1

Sanhedrin 1:2

Nedarim 6:8 (

Midrash

Bereshit Rabbah

Vayikra Rabbah

Bamidbar Rabbah

Tanchuma Tazria

Shir HaShirim Rabbah

Eichah Rabbah

Greek and Syriac works

Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho

Suetonius, 12 Caesars

Irenaeus, Against Heresies

Epiphanius, Panarion

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