Jose ben Kisma was a Jewish Tanna sage of the third Generation.

Jose ben Kisma held moderate views, and had objected the rebellion against the Roman Authority

Iudaea Province

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. In that conjunction, the Midrash

Midrash

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 depicts a debate between him and Rabbi Haninah ben Teradion

Haninah ben Teradion

Rabbi Haninah ben Teradion or Hananiah ben Teradion was a teacher in the third Tannaitic generation . He was a contemporary of Eleazar ben Perata I and of Halafta, together with whom he established certain ritualistic rules...

, one of the Ten Martyrs

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, over Torah stdying

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 against the prohibition of the Romans. The Midrash

Midrash

The Hebrew term Midrash is a homiletic method of biblical exegesis. The term also refers to the whole compilation of homiletic teachings on the Bible....

 describes that when Jode ben Kisma died, the greatest of Rome came to bury him, and when they returned from his tomb, they found Haninah ben Teradion

Haninah ben Teradion

Rabbi Haninah ben Teradion or Hananiah ben Teradion was a teacher in the third Tannaitic generation . He was a contemporary of Eleazar ben Perata I and of Halafta, together with whom he established certain ritualistic rules...

 teaching Torah

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 in public, and had executed him by Conflagration

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.

The Mishnah

Mishnah

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 cites a Jose ben Kisma's essay: