BIBL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sicarii, Pharisees, Book Of Leviticus
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Sadducees: most powerful jewish group, wealthy and of the priestly class, controlled the temple system, priests who focused on sacrifices and temple worship, adheared to pentateuch strongly (first 5 books or scrolls of the torah: Genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers, deutoronomy: rejected oral traditions, no belief in resurrection or afterlife or anything supernatural (that"s why they were very sad-you-see, died out with the destruction of the temple. Pharisees: religious conservatives, faithful observers of torah, purity, faithfulness to god, opponents to sadducees, evolved into rabbinic judaism, developing written literature (practiced oral tradition before, competitors to christianity, synagogue leaders, hypocritical. Zealots: forcibly took money from rich for their cause, anti-roman (radical) In 70 ce, roman army crushed rebellion (started by.
