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shammaite — ˈshaməˌīt noun ( s) Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: Shammai, 1st century B.C. Jewish teacher + English ite : an adherent of the rigorous and often literal interpretation of the Jewish law taught by Shammai as opposed to the more liberal… … Useful english dictionary
Shammai — (50 BCE ndash;30 CE, Hebrew: שמאי) was a Jewish scholar of the 1st century, and an important figure in Judaism s core work of rabbinic literature, the Mishnah.Shammai was the most eminent contemporary and the halakhic opponent of Hillel, and is… … Wikipedia
Jacob of Kefar — Soma or Jacob of Kefar Sakanin, is a character described as a disciple of Yeshu ben Pandera. Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus was arrested for heresy (identified in the Talmud as being a Shammaite who did not believe in Gentile salvation, the minim… … Wikipedia
Eliezer ben Hurcanus — Eliezer ben HurcanusFact|date=June 2007 ( he. אליעזר בן הורקנוס) was one of the most prominent tannaim of the 1st and 2nd centuries, disciple of R. Johanan ben Zakkai ( Avoth ii. 8; Avot of Rabbi Natan vi. 3, xiv. 5) and colleague of Gamaliel II … Wikipedia
Asceticism in Judaism — Asceticism is a term derived from the Greek verb ἀσκέω, meaning to practise strenuously, to exercise. Athletes were therefore said to go through ascetic training, and to be ascetics.In this usage the twofold application to the mode of living and… … Wikipedia
Circumcision controversy in early Christianity — Part of a series on The Bible … Wikipedia
BET HILLEL AND BET SHAMMAI — BET HILLEL AND BET SHAMMAI, two schools of exposition of the Oral Law, named after hillel and shammai who lived at the end of the first century B.C.E. and the beginning of the first century C.E. These two schools existed from the time of these… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
CONFLICT OF OPINION — (Heb. מַחֲלֹקֶת, maḥaloket; Aram. pelugta; Palestinian Aram. taflugta). General Rarely did a view in the Talmud go unchallenged, since every talmudic scholar was entitled to his own opinion, even if it conflicted with that of his greatest… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
RESURRECTION — (Heb. תְּחִיַּת הַמֵּתִים), the belief that ultimately the dead will be revived in their bodies and live again on earth. Resurrection is to be distinguished from the belief in some sort of personal existence in another realm after death (see… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
