Abba Jose ben Hanan or Abba Jose ben Hanin (Hebrew; Aramaic: Abba bar Hanan) was a tanna

Tannaim

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 who lived in Judea

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 during the 1st century CE. His career spanned the last decades before the destruction of the Second Temple

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 and was a contemporary of Eliezer ben Jacob and of Hanina ben Antigonus

Hanina ben Antigonus

Hanina ben Antigonus ; A Jewish Tanna sage of the third generation of Tannaim, and one of priestly descent; contemporary of Akiva ben Joseph and Rabbi Ishmael....

, with both of whom he is mentioned in a halakhic discussion. His name occurs also as "Abba Jose ben Hanan," or "ben Johanan" (which is erroneously followed by "ish Yerushalayim"), "Abba Joseph," and"Abba Issi." Jose's halakot are also mentioned in Sifre, Numbers 8, Mid. ii. 6, and Sotah

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 20b. He transmitted an aggadah

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 of Abba Kohen Bardela and one of Shmuel haKatan

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. A sentence of Jose's, rebuking the priestly families

Sadducees

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 that acted violently toward the people, transmitted by Abba Saul ben Botnit, reads as follows: "Woe unto me for the house of Baithus and its rods; woe unto me for the house of Hnin and its calumnious whispering; woe unto me for the house of Qatros and its pens; woe unto me for the house of Ishmael ben Phabi and its fists."

In Yebamot 53b an "Abba Jose b. Johanan" ("b. Hanan" in Rashi

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) is mentioned as having transmitted a halakhah of Rabbi Meir, who lived a century later. Bacher therefore supposes that the author of the sentence quoted above was Abba Saul ben Botnit, and that it was transmitted by the Abba Jose of Yebamot.

Resources

• Schechter, Solomon and M. Seligsohn. "Jose, Abba, Ben Hanin." Jewish Encyclopedia
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  . Funk and Wagnalls, 1901–1906; citing:
  • Bacher, in R. E. J. xxxvii. 299;
  • Heilprin, Seder ha-Dorot, ii.