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  • From: "Hyam Maccoby" <h.z.maccoby AT leeds.ac.uk>
  • To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Paul a Pharisee?
  • Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 17:19:34 +0100


>Loren:

I wrote:

>Both Hillelites and Shammaites agreed that
> >faith-healing on the Sabbath was permitted.

You ask:
> Even in non-emergency situations?

Yes, even in non-emergency situations. Healing in itself is not included
among the kinds of `work' forbidden on the Sabbath (see Mishnah , Shahbath
7:2). If, however, the METHOD of healing was a form of `work' (e.g.
building a fire, or grinding medicines), the act of healing was forbidden
EXCEPT in an emergency, when all Sabbath prohibitions became null and void.
In the case of Jesus, the method of healing (i.e. faith-healing) did not
involve any act defined as `work', and therefore his kind of healing was
permitted even in the absence of emergency.

Best wishes,

Hyam Maccoby


Research Professor
Centre for Jewish Studies
University of Leeds
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Loren Rosson" <rossoiii AT yahoo.com>
To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 12:15 PM
Subject: [corpus-paul] Re: Paul a Pharisee?


> Hyam,
>
> Thanks for the data regarding Shammaites vs
> Hillelites. I will look into their differences (and
> similarities) more closely and for now will concede
> that a "Shammaite Saul" does not resolve the problems
> of Acts 5 as much as I thought it did.
>
> But by the way...
>
> Loren Rosson III
> Nashua NH
> rossoiii AT yahoo.com
>
>
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