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The sadducees and the pharisees.
Title: The sadducees and the pharisees.
Category: Society & Culture / Religion
Details: Words: 1261 | Pages: 5.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
The sadducees and the pharisees.
In this essay I will compare two of the religious groups in Judaism, the Sadducees and the Pharisees. In this I will discuss their position in society, religious beliefs, traditions and practices with reference to the New Testament and the writings of Josephus.
The Sadducees were a Jewish group of the Second Temple period. They were the priestly, aristocratic party in Judaism, whose interests centred in the Temple, And are known on the basis of …showed first 75 words of 1261 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1261 total…that the Pharisees seemed to be more willing to adopt religious views, which now seem more normative, was this a denial on the part of the Sadducees of their faith and did this make them less religious then their opponents? On the contrary, it was not an irreligious attitude which made the Sadducees deny some religious views, instead they were loyal to biblical traditions which they were bound to hand on in their own time.
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