Gamaliel the Elder (Acts 22:3). Gamaliel, Paul’s mentor, was one of the most famous rabbis in first-century Judaism.24 Gamaliel was a rabbi in the school or house of Hillel, and he was the grandson of the famous Rabbi Hillel. The two main schools of rabbinic teachings followed either Rabbi Hillel or Rabbi Shammai, who disagreed over the exact meaning of some 316 oral laws, which were Jewish traditions that expanded the laws in the Torah (see Mark 7:4–9). Shammai tended to be more restrictive and
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