Abba Jose ben Hanan orAbba Jose ben Hanin (Hebrew;Aramaic: Abba bar Hanan) was atanna who lived inJudea. His name occurs also as "Abba Jose ben Hanan," or "ben Johanan" (which is erroneously followed by "ish Yerushalayim"), "Abba Joseph," and "Abba Issi."
He appears to have engaged in a halachic discussion withEliezer ben Jacob and ofHanina ben Antigonus on the subject of Temple practices,[1] which would suggest he lived in the late 1st or early 2nd centuries CE. However, he also transmitted anaggadah[2] ofAbba Kohen Bardela who lived around the year 200 CE, which would place Jose at the same time or later. On this basis, scholar Aharon Heimann concluded that there were two scholars by this name, living at different times.
Jose's halakhot are also mentioned inSifre, Numbers 8; Middot 2:6; andSotah 20b. He transmitted an aggadah byShmuel haKatan.[3] A teaching of Jose's, rebuking thepriestly families that acted violently toward the people, transmitted byAbba Saul ben Batnit, reads as follows: "Woe unto me for thehouse of Boethus and their rods; woe unto me for the house of Hanin and their calumnious whispering; woe unto me for the house of Qatros and their pens; woe unto me for the house ofIshmael ben Phabi and their fists."[4]
InYebamot 53b, an "Abba Jose b. Johanan" ("b. Hanan" inRashi) is mentioned as having transmitted a halakhah of Rabbi Meir, who lived a century later. Bacher[5] therefore supposes that the author of the teaching quoted above wasAbba Shaul ben Botnit, and that it was transmitted by the Abba Jose of Yebamot.[6]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Schechter, Solomon; M. Seligsohn (1901–1906)."Jose, Abba, Ben Hanin". InSinger, Isidore; et al. (eds.).The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. Its bibliography: