Tannaim (~10–220 CE)
The sages of the Mishnah — Hillel, Shammai, Rabbi Akiva, Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi and their colleagues, teaching in Yavneh, Tzippori, and the academies of the Galilee.
53 teachers in this era.
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