sages from Hillel's time (died about 10 B.C.) until the generation (about 230 A.D.) after Rabbi Yehudah ha-Nasi, the compiler of the Mishnah. Singular: tanna.

Tannaim (תנאים) is the plural term (singular tanna) for the Rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah, from approx. 70-200 CE. (The singular form of the word is tanna.) The period of the Tannaim (also referred to as the Mishnaic period) came after the period of the Zugot ("pairs"), and before the period of the Amoraim; lasting about 130 years.

(Aramaic): Jewish scholars from the 1st and 2nd century