Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

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Mishnah, Makkot, 1.9

nan If two persons see him [the transgressor] from one window and two other persons see him from another window and one standing in the middle warns him, then, if some on one side and some on the other side can see one another, they constitute together one body of evidence, but if they cannot [see one another], they are two bodies of evidence. Consequently, if one of these is found to be a perjurer, both [the transgressor] and those two witnesses are put to death, while other group of witnesses is exempt. Rabbi Yose says: “He is never put to death unless two witnesses had warned him, as it says, “by the mouth of two witnesses..” (Deut. 17:6). Another interpretation: “By the mouth of two witnesses”: that the Sanhedrin shall not hear the evidence from the mouth of an interpreter."

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subject	book bibliographic info
abba saul	Schiffman (1983) 79
amoraim,amoraic period	Schiffman (1983) 79
capital matters	Schiffman (1983) 79
conviction	Schiffman (1983) 79
court,of twenty-three (small sanhedrin)	Schiffman (1983) 79
execution	Schiffman (1983) 79
exegesis,sectarian	Schiffman (1983) 79
financial contact,matters	Schiffman (1983) 79
flagellation,flogging (malqut)	Schiffman (1983) 79
incarceration	Schiffman (1983) 79
judgment after death	Schiffman (1983) 79
offenses,repetition of	Schiffman (1983) 79
pharisaic-rabbinic tradition,law	Schiffman (1983) 79
rabbi joshua ben qorha	Schiffman (1983) 79
tannaim,tannaitic law,judaism,period	Schiffman (1983) 79
testimony,combination of	Schiffman (1983) 79
testimony,law of,(zadokite fragments)	Schiffman (1983) 79
testimony	Schiffman (1983) 79
trial,liability to be tried	Schiffman (1983) 79
witnesses,single (one)	Schiffman (1983) 79
witnesses,three	Schiffman (1983) 79
witnesses,two'	Schiffman (1983) 79