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u/OtherWisdom · 6 pointsr/AcademicBiblical

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I have a very small book entitled Mishnah and the Words of Jesus in which the author argues the teachings of Jesus compared to the other sages of his day.

Here's an excerpt:

> In Mishnah 12, we are told that Hillel and Shammai received their tradition from the foregoing Sages. Hillel and Shammai are the last and most renowned of the zugot, or pairs. Notice once again how each receives from his predecessor so that all goes back not just to Moses but all the way back to God.

> Hillel and Shammai were both contemporary with Jesus and considered two of the greatest Sages of their day, representing two different schools of Jewish thought. Hillel, in most instances, might be considered more liberal. The school of Shammai, on the other hand, might appear more conservative.

> I personally believe we could identify a third school of thought as the school of Jesus--all three contemporary with one another in the first century. I believe that can be established from some of the teachings of Jesus when He runs headlong into a controversy between the two different schools, the school of Hillel and the school of Shammai.

> To illustrate that point, we can note Jesus' teaching about divorce in Matthew 5:31 when He says, "Whoever shall put away his wife let him give her a bill of divorcement." Jesus is quoting from Deuteronomy 24:1. He said, "You have heard that it has been said, 'You shall not commit adultery."' He goes on to say, "But I say unto you that whosoever puts away his wife save for the cause of fornication causes her to commit adultery, and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced shall commit adultery."...

> ...What is Jesus really saying? In order to understand what is happening, we have to see Jesus coming into conflict with the school of Hillel and the school of Shammai over the subject of divorce and remarriage.

> In Everyman's Talmud by A. Cohen, p. 166, we read that in the first century of the present era, the schools of Shammai and Hillel took opposite views of the biblical text in Deuteronomy 24:1 which allows a man to send his wife away if she find no favor in his eyes because he has found some "unseeming thing" in her. The phrase "unseeming thing" is literally the nakedness of a thing which the school of Shammai explained to mean that a man may not divorce his wife unless he discovered her to be unfaithful to him.

> Hillel, on the other hand, declared he may divorce her even if she spoiled his cooking. From the words, "...if she find no favor in his eyes," Rabbi Akiva argued that he may divorce her even if he found another woman more beautiful than she. (Order Nashim, Tractate Gittin 9:10)

> The more lenient opinion of Hillel was adopted as law so that in Jesus' day a man could put away his wife even if he did not like her looks. Here we have an example of something Jesus taught when he talked about the scribes and the Pharisees teaching for commandment the traditions of men. This was not a commandment. In Jesus' day, Jewish law was very specific. There were reasons whereby a man could put away his wife and a wife could put away a husband. It was specific in law. Everybody knew it.

u/warringtonjeffreys · 4 pointsr/occult

Of the books I've read about her, I liked "The Cosmic Shekinah" best as it explores her archetype in several cultures, including the Jewish culture:

https://www.amazon.com/Cosmic-Shekinah-History-Testament-manifestations-ebook/dp/B006SP1EH4/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=asherah&qid=1570658034&sr=8-8

Another book, "The Hebrew Goddess", is a little dry but very well-researched and focuses only on Asherah in a Hebrew context:

https://www.amazon.com/Hebrew-Goddess-3rd-Enlarged/dp/0814322719/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=asherah&qid=1570658092&sr=8-5