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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But Falk goes beyond the evidence in thinking that the denunciations were only of the followers of Shammai.
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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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These two parties, the School of Hillel and the School of Shammai, clashed shortly before Jesus' birth.
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These are the controversies relating to meals between the schools of Shammai and Hillel.
From Hebrew Literature by Epiphanius Wilson
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