Boulé ( , plural and ; Greek, βουλή = "council"):

By: Crawford Howell Toy , Kaufmann Kohler

Court of justice, or Sanhedrin; also the seat of the senate (Josephus, "B. J." v. 4, § 2; hence also , βουλευτής = "senator"; Giṭ. 37a; Sem. viii., "the boulés or senates of Judea"). According to Yer. Ned. iii. 2; Shab. iii. 8; Pesiḳ. R. xli.; Ab. R. N. xx. (ed. Schechter, p. 72), there were twenty-four boulés in the south of Judea, which passed out of existence on account of the general disregard of the sanctity of the oath. Compare Sanhedrin and Prosbul .

Bibliography:

Brüll's Jahrb. i. 41;
Levy, Neuhebr. Wörterb.;
Jastrow, Dict. s.v. , and ;
Schürer, Gesch., 3d ed., ii. 211;
Büchler, Das Synedrion in Jerusalem, p. 18 (compare pp. 57, 232 et seq.), Vienna, 1902.

T. K.

Goatskin Water-Bottles, Now in Use in Palestine . (From a photograph by the Palestine Exploration Fund.)