Synedrion

Sanhedrin or Sanhedrim ( συνέδριον; approximately: Community cooperation Sitting / session) designated an ancient Greek advisory and decision-making body ( council ).

A Sanhedrin could both Symmachien as the Corinthian Federation and on poleis, but also for non-governmental tasks responsible (for example, in the voluntary sector or in the religious sphere, see amphictyony ). In the Hellenistic states, the term also referred to the " Privy Council " of the ruler. In Roman times, the Sanhedrin partially displaced the term bule as a name for the city council.

From the name of the Sanhedrin, the Latinized name Sanhedrin ( Sanhedrin ), the Talmud Sanhedrin forwards, from the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem. This 70 - member committee presented from the 2nd century BC to the destruction of the Temple (70 AD), the highest religious and political authority of Judaism represent and met under the chairmanship of the acting high priest.