Timeline for What was the difference between the Pharisees and Sadducees?
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| Nov 2, 2016 at 18:51 | comment | added | brewpixels | Great answer. But why did you leave out the Nazarenes? | |
| Oct 13, 2015 at 18:07 | comment | added | swasheck | Any sources to cite on that? Sounds interesting. | |
| Oct 13, 2015 at 17:57 | comment | added | Ryan | In addition to the four listed above, I would also add "Messianists" to the list of primary factions. Though not as academically inclined as the Pharisees/Sadducees, they were the main recruiting base for Jesus' public ministry. They might even be described as "proto-Ebionites" or "proto-Nazarenes." | |
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| Aug 21, 2012 at 15:10 | comment | added | swasheck | Scribes were more of a functional group than a religious faction. They were the ones who actually would replicate copies of the law. As such, they were probably more familiar with the actual semantics of the Law than any other group, and could function as teachers, advisers, and "lawyers" in the IT/NT era. They're probably associated closely with the Pharisees given the Pharisees' emphasis on keeping the law. | |
| Aug 21, 2012 at 14:39 | comment | added | warren | where to the Scribes fall into this categorization, as in "the scribes and pharisees" | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 4:55 | vote | accept | Mike | ||
| Jun 26, 2012 at 4:54 | comment | added | Mike | @swasheck - +1 accepted. Think you basically captured the answer - make a good quick reference. mojo comment good as well. I think it can be seen that although the Sadducees were more skeptical intellectually and had more influence in government party because of that, the Pharisees were the religious popular with their cool trends of such outward dedication. However I am sure an average Jews living in Galilee, in some small town like Bethlehem, would not have been overly impressed with any of these groups as they all seemed to break away from the simple quite holy life. Cheers | |
| Jun 25, 2012 at 17:09 | comment | added | swasheck | @mojo yes, that's what I was driving toward but didn't really explicitly state as much. Thanks for the clarification. | |
| Jun 25, 2012 at 17:08 | comment | added | mojo | The Sadducees were also the group with the most political power. The Sanhedrin were composed (primarily?) of Sadducees. | |
| Jun 25, 2012 at 15:23 | history | answered | swasheck | CC BY-SA 3.0 |