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ancient settlement in lower Galilee, which became an important rabbinic center in the 2nd century ce. Earlier scholarship spoke of an “Usha period” during which the central rabbinic institutions – the “patriarch” (Nasi) Shimʿon ben Gamaliel II and the Sanhedrin – were located in Usha. The theory was that the third generation of the Tannaim, identified with the pupils of Akiba ben Joseph, settled in Usha after the catastrophe of the Bar Kokhba Revolt. Today scholars believe instead that Usha was …