From Conservapedia The lawyers of the Jews in the New Testament are those Old Testament scriptural experts who probe more carefully to draw forth more explicitly the implied meanings of consequential application to the details of Jewish life hidden within the text, and are the original authoritative sources cited later in the disputations of the Talmud.
Scribes (Bible)
Pharisees
Sadducees
Sanhedrin
TANNAIM AND AMORAIM: By: Wilhelm Bacher, Jacob Zallel Lauterbach, Joseph Jacobs, Louis Ginzberg (jewishencyclopedia.com)
ZWI signed: