Between Testaments
Undeceptions with John Dickson
The Sadducees, Essenes and Zealots
In the century immediately before jesus, there were different kinds of judaisms. Sadducees go priestly group that prefer the law to prophets. The pharisees are hard line, right winged fundamentalists who say they deserve to determine what jewish culture is like. And slightly later, the zealots will pick up a sword and kill any one who is not jewish in order to gain jewish independence.
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