Nasi (Hebrew title)

Hebrew title; occurs 132 times in the Masoretic Text, and usually translated "prince" or "captain"; also a title for the head of the Sanhedrin (during the Second Temple Period) or as a religiopolitical office in the Late Roman Empire

6 dated entries naming Nasi (Hebrew title), drawn from 6 separate years between 40 BCE and 425 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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1st century BC

  • 40 BCESimeon ben Shetach, Pharisee scholar and prince (Nasi)source

1st century

  • 50Gamaliel the Elder, Jewish ruler (Nasi) in Babylonia (approximate date)source
  • 52Gamaliel, Jewish leader (nasi) (approximate date)source
  • 70Simeon ben Gamliel, Jewish leader (nasi)source
  • 97Nerva recognizes the Sanhedrin of Jamnia as an official governmental body of the Jews, and the patriarch or nasi is designated as the representative of the Jewish people in Rome.source

5th century

  • 425Gamaliel VI, last Nasi (head of the Sanhedrin)source

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