...HILLEL One of the most revered spiritual leaders of the Jewish people who lived during the latter part of the first century bce, and the beginning of the first century ce Born in Babylonia, he went to Palestine at the age of 40, where he became a distinguished student...

...have been a simple means of reducing pagan apprehensions of Jewish separateness. Pompeius Trogus lived at the end of the first century BCE and the beginning of the first century CE.37 He offers an etiology of Jewish apartness by arguing that after the exodus the Jews remembered...

...viewpoint, considering the emotional background of the Jews under Roman rule. THE BIRTH OF CHRISTIANITY At the end of the first century BCE and the beginning of the first century CE, the Jews of Judaea and the Galilee went through a period of great political turmoil. Life in Roman...

...5. Conclusion The synagogues in Rome that I have discussed attest the vigor of the Jewish community at the end of the first century BCE and the beginning of the first century CE The community was large enough to have (probably) five synagogues in the capital city. It was self-confident...

...Shammai are two talmudic schools following the teaching of the great sages Hillel and Shammai who lived at the end of the first century BcE and the beginning of the first century CE Bet Hillel and Bet Shammai each have characteristic ways of thinking and deciding Jewish law, often...

...Mean. These two texts were chapters of a classic known as the Record of Rites (Li;/), a work compiled at the end of the first century BCE and the beginning of the first century CE on the basis of materials that were in many cases considerably older. Though the interest and importance...

...is strong indication that the characteristics of the papyrus are not atypical. Dionysius was writing at the end of the first century BCE and the beginning of the first century CE, while the papyri date from the third century BCE If the style represented in the papyri could have...

...berween the 'schools' of two famous Phatisees - Shammai and Hiilel - who apparenrly floutished around the end of the first century BCE and the beginning of the first century CE. There is also evidence of the existence of groups who followed the Phatisaic line, bur adopted...

...reporting on that methodology. Didymus was an Alexandrian scholar who flourished in the second half of the first century BCE and the beginning of the first century CE. For posterity, the primary mediator of the Aristarchean method has turned out to be this man. Didymus'...