7. Second Temple Sectarianism | Dr. Malka Simkovich
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The Importance of Wriggle Out of Questions
Not all scholars agree that they were a scenes Larry Schiffman and few others say that they were sadducees so already you're making an assumption but there is consensus that there were a scenes even if they were seen. And I, what I see is that most universalist literature comes out of Greek speaking communities in Egypt. We don't see debates like that at the foreground of Judean literature. But again, I don't want to make a hard binary. You do have texts such as Tobit, a third century BC, Tovia, and Hebrew, a third Century BC, novella that's written in the land of Israel that has universalist elements.
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