HANAN THE EGYPTIAN:

By: Executive Committee of the Editorial Board., S. Mendelsohn

1. (Hanan b. Abishalom.) One of the police judges at Jerusalem in the last decades of its independence (see Admon b. Gaddai). Several of his decisions have been preserved (Ket. xiii. 1 et seq.). 2. Disciple of Akiba, quoted among "those who argued before the sages" (Sanh. 17b; comp. Yer. Ma'as. Sh. ii. 53d). Only one halakah is preserved in his name (Yoma 63b).

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