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2.2 Jewish Sects
Vocabulary/Key terms and definitions
Term | Definition |
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Sadducees | Rejected all religious teaching which was not from the Torah, including belief in the resurrection of the dead. |
Sadducees | Willing to accept many elements of Roman culture. |
Pharisees | Their faith was based on scripture and on Jewish oral tradition. |
Pharisees | They believed that faith should shape everyday life. |
Pharisees | They were particularly concerned with making Judaism relevant under Roman rule |
Essenes | The strictest of the four main Jewish groups of Jesus' day. |
Essenes | Lived celibately and interpreted every law in the strictest possible way. |
Essenes | They separated themselves from all who did not live as they did. |
Zealots | Jews living in Jesus' time who believed that God called them to overthrow the Roman government in Palestine. |