Flattered, or perhaps realizing the value of peaceful Jews, he allowed Yohanan and his followers to set up an academy in Yavneh. There, the great projects that culminated in rabbinic literature got started. But the Judaism that was rescued and recorded by Yohanan and his followers was not the same as the Judaism of New Testament times. The multitude of factions and sects was replaced by a single authority based on a majority vote by scholarly rabbis. Competing voices such as apocalyptic Jews and