Person

Jacob of Kefar Sekhanya (t. Hullin 2:22-24)

2nd c. setting; Tosefta c. 250-300

early Jewish-Christian healer (in rabbinic tradition)

Hostile source. Rabbinic warnings against minim.

Disputed. Texts attested; Kefar Sekhanya's location is UNCERTAIN (Sakhnin in Galilee is often proposed, not proven); historicity debated.

Jacob of Kefar Sekhanya (t. Hullin 2:22-24) — HONEST STAND-IN. No portrait of Jacob exists, and no reasonably sized public-domain scan of Tosefta Hullin 2 (the passage that names him) could be staged this turn: the 1881 Zuckermandel Tosefta scans on Internet Archive are public domain (PDM 1.0) but the available PDFs are hundreds of megabytes to over a gigabyte. This photograph shows olive groves at Sakhnin in the Galilee. Ancient Sikhnin / Sakhnin is a possible identification of Kefar Sekhanya / Kefar Sama, but that equation is not certain and should be captioned as such. Do not present this as 'Jacob's village' without the caveat.Roi Porat, Olive Groves in Sakhnin, BUSTAN TREE collection, digital collections of the Younes & Soraya Nazarian Library, University of Haifa (EU Horizon 2020 programme led by Prof. Guy Bar-Oz). Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. CC BY 4.0Source page

The Tosefta tells how Jacob of Kefar Sekhanya offered to heal Rabbi Ishmael's nephew Ben Dama of snakebite 'in the name of Yeshua ben Pantera', and how Rabbi Eliezer was arrested for heresy after enjoying a teaching Jacob gave in Yeshu's name at Sepphoris.

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Kefar Sekhanya (identification with Sakhnin uncertain) · home village (identification with Sakhnin uncertain) · disputed Uncertain: the identification with Sakhnin is disputed.
Sepphoris · where Rabbi Eliezer met him (parallel b. Avodah Zarah 16b-17a) · tradition

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