by hadassah | Nov 26, 2025 | The Rabbis
Jerusalem Talmud Pesahim 6:1 (33a): Another Version of Hillel’s Rise to Power The Jerusalem Talmud presents an alternative version of this same story, the rise of Hillel to Pharisaic-Rabbinic leadership. Here also, no amount of logic was acceptable....
by hadassah | Nov 26, 2025 | The Rabbis
Tosefta Pesahim 4-13- Hillel’s Rise to Power Rabbinic literature preserves several versions of the narrative of Hillel’s rise to power as leader of the Pharisaic-Rabbinic sages ca. 30 B.C.E. According to this account, Hillel’s attempt to prove his views...
by hadassah | Nov 26, 2025 | The Rabbis
Josephus, XV, 2-3, 368-70- Sameas and Pollio Josephus provides a brief report about Sameas and Pollio, two Pharisaic leaders. Most scholars see them as identical to Shemaiah and Abtalion mentioned in the Mishnah as teachers of Hillel and Shammai. (2) …...
by hadassah | Nov 26, 2025 | The Rabbis
Josephus, Antiquities XIV, ch. 4-5- Herod’s Trial before the Sanhedrin In an attempt to maintain order and control of the Galilee where he was governor from 47 B.C.E., Herod summarily killed those rebels whom he regarded as robbers without trial. He was tried...
by hadassah | Nov 25, 2025 | The Rabbis
Mishnah Hagigah 2-2-3, Tosefta Hagigah 2-8, 10- Rabbinic Traditions about the Pharisees Later Rabbinic tradition traced the official nasi (patriarch) and head of the court all the way back to the Hasmonean and Herodian periods. In these passages, in which there...
by hadassah | Feb 14, 2016 | The Rabbis
Acts 5- 33-39 Words of Rabban Gamaliel I The book of Acts pictures Rabban Gamliel I as reacting to the arrest of the Christian apostles. This passage has him reviewing the history of messianic pretenders in the Second Temple period. 33-” When they...
