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At the Feet of Rabbi Gamaliel: Rabbinic Influence in Paul’s Teachings is unavailable, but you can change that!

The influence of Rabbi Gamaliel upon Shaul (Paul), his student, has neither been fully appreciated nor adequately analyzed, until now. There can be no doubt that the influence of the Rabbi would have been a large one, given the historical circumstances surrounding the life of Paul. Did Paul continue following the influence of Rabbi Gamaliel or did he turn against the instructions of his teacher?...

which were developed and handed down across generations from Hillel himself to his son Shimon, then to his grandson Gamliel I (or Gamliel the Elder), and then passed on personally to Shaul. When Friedman sets these Jewish writings alongside Shaul’s own words from Pauline texts (1 Thess. 3:10; Gal. 6:1; Eph. 4:2; 1 Cor. 10:25–31; 2 Cor. 3:1–5; 10:3–5; 1 Tim. 2:1–2, 15; 3:2–6; 4:12; 6:10; 2 Tim. 2:24–25; Rom. 12:15; 13:3–7), it becomes obvious that Paul shared Gamliel’s approach to Torah, Gamliel’s
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