Doctor

"(Luke 2:46; 5:17; Acts 5:34), a teacher. The Jewish doctors" "taught and disputed in synagogues, or wherever they could find" an audience. Their disciples were allowed to propose to them questions. They assumed the office without any appointment to it. The doctors of the law were principally of the sect of the Pharisees. Schools were established after the destruction of "Jerusalem at Babylon and Tiberias, in which academical degrees" were conferred on those who passed a certain examination. Those "of the school of Tiberias were called by the title "rabbi," and" "those of Babylon by that of "master."