And of course, the most important group of all are not the Pharisees, not the Sadducees, not the Essenes, not the revolutionaries, but the plain Jews. Plain simple folk who presumably live their ...

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 ...

They were not isolationist by embracing an ascetic lifestyle like the Essenes ... Not all Pharisees were scribes and not all scribes were Pharisees. Unlike the Sadducees, who were from the ...

Josephus, who lived in the first century, mentions four groups: Pharisees; Sadducees; Essenes; and Zealots. With which of the groups did Jesus have dealings? The Gospels never mention the Essenes ...

In this time of silence, three key religious groups arose – the Sadducees, the Pharisees and the Essenes – with very divergent views on the coming of the Messiah. These perspectives influenced ...

the Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, and tax collectors. The Zealots loved him because he was an activist like them. The selection of the 12 was a very delicate political exercise. Two of them came ...

Christianity has its origins in Judaism, and initially existed alongside a number of other Jewish groups such as the Pharisees, Sadducees and Essenes. The Essenes were a Jewish community who lived ...

Giles Fraser and guests hear from Jonathan Aitken, notoriously labelled a hypocrite, to explore how the Pharisees became a byword for hypocrisy. Show more The word hypocrite gets used with such ...