The Pharisees emphasized tradition, the Sadducees downplayed spiritual matters, and the Zealots believed armed revolt was the only path to freedom. Roman historians like Tacitus confirmed Judea’s ...

Two thousand years ago, the Jewish community was riven with divisions; a group called the Pharisees maintained traditional Jewish law and practice in the face of Roman pressure to change ...

Scholars believe that the Qumran community belonged to the Essenes, a highly religious and ascetic Jewish sect. The Essenes were known for their strict religious discipline. Becoming a full ...

After He entered Jerusalem and expelled merchants and money changers from the temple, Jesus returned to Bethany to continue teaching and challenging religious authorities, exposing the hypocrisy of ...

After He entered Jerusalem and expelled merchants and money changers from the temple, Jesus returned to Bethany to continue teaching and challenging religious authorities, exposing the hypocrisy of ...

exposing the hypocrisy of the Pharisees, Sadducees and other temple leaders. Jesus likened these to unfaithful tenants of a vineyard who rejected and killed their servants sent by the owner ...

The different factions of the Jewish community at the time — Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, and others — had many disagreements with one another, but that did not lead any of the groups to ...

(“I enjoy that they’re forbidden,” one says). We see the Pharisees’ derision for King Herod’s hellenization. There was a lot of pressure on the Pharisees! The fact is that Jews can ...

Israel’s discriminatory policies echo apartheid-like restrictions. Palestinians are subjected to invasive checks at Israeli checkpoints, face employment discrimination, endure unequal access to ...

For the first century of its existence, Christianity functioned almost as another sect within Judaism—much like the Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots, Herodians, and Samaritans.

They were geographical and cultural i.e. Hellenistic Jews and Israeli Jews; religious i.e. Scribes Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, and political; Herodians, Zealot and Sicari anti-Roman ...