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The Sanhedrin
Lauterbach connects the original practice of ordination with the induction of leaders into the Sanhedrin (Lauterbach, “Ordination,” 428). According to the Mishnah, disciples who were appointed to the Sanhedrin were appointed by סְמִיכָה (semikhah) (the laying on of hands; m. Sanhedrin 4.4; Warkentin, Ordination, 19). In the case of the Sanhedrin, ordination meant appointment to the position. The Mishnah gives no indication that the laying on of hands was understood to confer the Spirit. As with later rabbinical tradition, ordination to the Sanhedrin was appointment to a legal post which had no clerical or priestly function. Thus, this type of ordination differed from the later practice of Christian ordination, which authorized the person to duties like administering sacraments (Ehrhardt, “Ordination,” 125–26).
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