Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Harold Holmyard <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Shoshanna Walker wrote:

> That is because NOT EVERYTHING was written in the Torah.
>
> How could the (great) Sanhedrin NOT have existed in pre exilic times 
> - it had to meet at least in Eretz Yisrael, although its authority 
> was diminished if it didn't meet in the Lishkat haGazit
>
> G-d didn't say anywhere in the Torah that the 70 elders that He 
> commanded Moshe to appoint (and sit at their head), existed for the 
> sake of Moshe.
>
> Why do you resist, despite all the information we have, that this 
> wasn't the first Sanhedrin, even though it got that particular name 
> later?
>  

HH: If even the Jewish Encyclopedia does not think it existed in 
pre-exilic times, then intelligent people can differ on this issue.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard