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Shammai

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[shah-mahy] / ˈʃɑ maɪ /

noun

  1. flourished 1st century b.c., Hebrew rabbi: founder of Beth Shammai, school of hermeneutics.


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These two parties, the School of Hillel and the School of Shammai, clashed shortly before Jesus' birth.

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In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus criticizes the "eye for an eye" view of justice emphasized by a leader of the Shammai school.

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But Falk goes beyond the evidence in thinking that the denunciations were only of the followers of Shammai.

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Falk picked the wrong controversy as the source of the denunciations: it was the one between the Pharisees and the early Christians, not the one between the School of Hillel and the School of Shammai.

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The followers of Hillel, the disciples of Shammai, did not recognize him.

From Mary Magdalen by Edgar Saltus

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