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The Zuggoth
What was the Zuggoth in Judaism?
A new method that rivaled the Midrash method beginning in the middle of the 3rd century B.C. Five great "pairs" of teachers promoted this method during the period between the 3rd and 1st centuries B.C. The most famous were Shammai and Hillel at the end of the 1st century B.C. The Zugoth method involved the teaching of the oral law without reference to the order of the Hebrew Scriptures. Divorced from the established sequence of the Hebrew Scriptures, the oral law could be taught by means of repetition. Thus the name "Mishnah" (from the Hebrew snh, "to repeat") was attached to this oral teaching of the Law.Yose ben Yoezer of Sereda, Yose ben Yohanan
Yehoshua ben Perahyah, Mattai (or Nittai) or ArbelYehudah ben Tabbai, Simeon ben Shetah
Shemayah, AbtalionHillel the Elder, Shammai