The Herodians might not be as well-known or spoken about as frequently as the Pharisees or Sadducees, but their presence in the New Testament points to the reality of the spiritual and political ...

We will always be outnumbered at protests and be the minority on social media. Being among the few and holding our ground is ...

The biblical narrative of Herod’s decision to butcher some 3,000 innocent children inspired Rennaissance and Baroque artists ...

At one point, after running out of polite words to describe Pharisees, Jesus just threw up his hands and called them “vipers.” They were killers with forked tongues, not necessarily killing ...

Author's Note: All previous volumes of this series are here. The first 56 volumes are compiled into the book "Bible Study For ...

Tonight is Cross Over Night! The one night when the faithful and not-so-faithful, saints and sinners, judges and the judged, Pharisees and Sadducees, Jews and Gentiles all gather under one roof (the ...

The prominent Jews who were under oppression ... and legalistic class called Pharisees - who were concerned about purity of the Jewish faith. The influential Sadducees were regarded as elites ...

Joseph is the centre of attention whenever he is, as it were ... that distinguished the Pharisees (the architects of what we call rabbinic Judaism) from the Sadducees and the Essenes.

The priests, then, really are in charge of the Temple itself the Temple Proper. PHARISEES AND SADDUCEES Who were the Pharisees and the Sadducees? Among the other groups that would have circulated ...

Joseph is the center of attention whenever he is, as it were, onstage, and yet he is, time and again, the done-to rather than the doer, an object of other people’s actions rather than the subject of ...

they were ideologically very similar to the Pharisees. Some considered them the fourth sect of Judaism after the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes. The Zealots anticipated a Messiah figure who ...