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Chapter 4  
     
1.
 Sometime after the end of the siege and destruction of the Temple in 70 CE, the grandson of Gamaliel the Elder, Gamaliel of Yavne (also known as Gamaliel II) arrived in Yavne.
  
2.
 Upon the death of the great Johanan (John) ben Zechariah (John the Baptist) around 80 CE, Gamaliel of Yavne took over the leadership and continued the family line of his great grandfather Hillel the Babylonian.
  
3.
 While Johanan (John) ben Zechariah (John the Baptist) was the spiritual tower that blended Essene values with Pharisee devotion and discipline, it was Gamaliel who protected and saved this last remaining refuge of wisdom from destruction.
  
4.
 One of the key challenges facing Gamaliel throughout his life was the careful balance between separation from any association with Christian founders as well as former Nazarene zealots and even followers of the Baptist and other fragments.
  
5.
 It is important to recognize that from 65 CE, it was a summary capital offence throughout the Roman Empire to be a Christian.
  
6.
 One of his most famous journeys was to Rome with the most senior members of the school to plead for the continued support of Emperor Domitian.
  
7.
 Gamaliel of Yavne ended the division between rival interpretations and established one consistent approach to the interpretation of Rabbinical Judaism.
  
8.
 From that point on, the rest is history.
  

 
 
 

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