The Council of Jamnia was a council purportedly held late in the 1st century AD to finalize the development of the canon of the Hebrew Bible in response to Christianity. It has also been hypothesized to be the occasion when the Jewish authorities decided to exclude believers in Jesus as the Messiah from synagogue attendance, as referenced by interpretations of John 9:22 in the New Testament. The writing of the Birkat haMinim benediction is attributed to Shmuel ha-Katan at the supposed Council of Jamnia.
Page from Charles William Wilson's Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt with image of Yabneh and discussion of the Council of Jamnia.
Yavne or Yavneh is a city in the Central District of Israel. In 2022, it had a population of 56,232.
Yavne
Twelfth-century Mausoleum of Abu Huraira in Yavne, attributed to both Rabbi Gamaliel of Yavne and Abu Hurairah, a Companion of Muhammad.
The "Kerem B'Yavneh" yeshiva, 1945
Yavne in 1958. The site of Yibna shown in ruins. The Ma'bara (development town) lies north of the ruins