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Conflicts between Pharisees and Sadducees took place in the context of much broader and longstanding social and religious conflicts amongst Jews (exacerbated by the Roman conquest). [2] One conflict was cultural, between those who favored Hellenization (the Sadducees) and those who resisted it (the Pharisees).
The Pharisees and the Sadducees Come to Tempt Jesus by James Tissot (Brooklyn Museum) The Jewish community of the Second Temple period is often defined by its sectarian and fragmented attributes. Josephus, in Antiquities, contextualizes the Sadducees as opposed to the Pharisees and the Essenes.
Part of the Pharisee-Sadducee conflict. Sadducees: Pharisees. Seleucid Empire (89-88 BCE) 67 BCE 63 BCE Hasmonean Civil War. Part of the Pharisee-Sadducee conflict Part of the Third Mithridatic War. Hyrcanus II. Pharisees; Nabataean kingdom
The Judean Civil War was a conflict between King Alexander Jannaeus and the Pharisees, the dominant political party in the Great Sanhedrin at the time. Alexander was supported by the minority Sadducees, while the Pharisees under Nasi Joshua ben Perachiah were briefly backed by the Seleucid Empire.
Conflicts between Pharisees and Sadducees took place in the context of much broader and longstanding social and religious conflicts among Jews, made worse by the Roman occupation. [5] Another conflict was cultural, between those who favored Hellenization (the Sadducees) and those who resisted it (the Pharisees).
The Pharisees, a respected and influential group, believed both the Written Torah and ancestral traditions were equally binding and included members from both the priesthood and the general population. [23] The Sadducees, consisting of high priests and aristocrats, rejected the resurrection of the dead. [24]
During this period serious theological differences emerged between the Sadducees and Pharisees. Whereas Sadducees favored a limited interpretation of the Torah, Pharisees debated new applications of the law and devised ways for all Jews to incorporate purity practices (hitherto limited to the Jerusalem Temple, see also Ministry of Jesus#Ritual cleanliness) in their everyday lives.
Although the Pharisees had opposed the wars of expansion of the Hasmoneans and the forced conversions of the Idumeans, the political rift between them became wider when Pharisees demanded that the Hasmonean king Alexander Jannaeus choose between being king and being High Priest. In response, the king openly sided with the Sadducees by adopting ...