What is yavneh?

Question

A biblical scholar I have been reading refers to a "post-yavneh" period.

Answer 1

Perhaps it is a miss-spelling, of Yahweh?

Yahweh is a translation of the name of a god in jewish history. The original word is 4 hebrew letters long, but the pronunciation and spelling has changed and split a lot over time. The word Jehova is also the same thing, just a different pronounciation/spelling due to translation from hebrew to latin based language.

Answer 2

Yavne

(Hebrew: יַבְנֶה‎, Arabic: يبنة‎ Yibnah, Latin: Iamnia; traditional English spelling Jabneh or Jamnia) is a city in the Center District of Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2004 the city had a total population of 31,800.

History

The Hebrew Bible refers to Yavne as Yavne'el (Joshua 15:11), a border city between the tribal allotments of Dan and Judah. Later, its walls were breached by King Uzziah in his battle against the Philistines (2Chronicles 26:6).

The Romans called the city Iamnia. After the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, Rabban Yochanan Ben Zakkai moved the Sanhedrin to Yavne. Shortly thereafter, the Council of Yavne met there, whence Rabbinical Judaism emerged. The Sanhedrin left Yavne for Usha in 80 CE, only to return in 116 CE, before leaving Yavne for good.

The Crusaders called the city Ibelin and built a castle there in 1141. Its namesake noble family, Ibelin, was important in the Kingdom of Jerusalem and later in the Kingdom of Cyprus. Ibelin itself was captured by Saladin in 1187.

Present-day Yavne is located on the lands of the former Arab village of Yibna.