scholars in Palestine came to accept the honorific "rabbi". During this period, they compiled the Mishna, which was later expounded upon and recorded in the Jerusalem Talmud.

Johanan bar Nappaha (c. 220-250 CE) was considered the greatest Palestinian amora of his time, and according to Adin Steinsaltz, "the most glorious epoch of Palestinian learning" ensued when he was appointed rector of the academy in Tiberias.