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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

We hear of other groups around this time, besides the Sadducees and the Pharisees and Essenes ... it seems that these purity regulations, though, were made also a practice of kind ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Of these, the Pharisees are the best known ... to adjust to the political realities of Hasmonean rule than were the Sadducees. Even the Essenes, however, could not entirely escape Hellenistic ...