Religious Parties in Ancient Rabbinism

Texts. Judean-Samaritan Feud 56. Assyrians Occupy Samaria [722 BCE] --- 1 Kings 17:5-6, 24-34 57. Why Jews Exclude Samaritans --- Kuthim 2.7 58. Samaritan Temple --- Josephus, Antiquities 11.342-346 59. Temple Rivalry --- Josephus, Antiquities 13.74, 77-79 60. Samaritans Desecrate Judean Temple -- Josephus, Antiquities 18.29-30 61. Murdered Galilean Avenged ---- Josephus, Jewish War 2.232-237 Pharisees & Sadducees 62. Three Jewish Sects --- Josephus, Jewish War 2.119 63. Argument over Oral Torah --- Josephus, Antiquities 12.297-298 64. Principles & Popularity of Pharisees --- Josephus, Antiquities 18.12-15 65. Sadducees differ from Pharisees --- Josephus, Jewish War 2.164-166 66. Rabbinic Lament over Sadducean Brutality --- Tosefta, Menachoth 13.21 67. Tradition of the Elders --- Mishna, Aboth 1.1 68. Standards for Disciples --- Mishna (supplement), Aboth de R. Nathan A 3 69. Hillel justifies Oral Tradition --- Babylonian Talmud, Shabbath 31a 70. The Yoke of Torah --- Mishna, Aboth 3.5 71. Deviants from Torah Rejected --- Mishna, Aboth 3.12 72. Saying & Doing --- Tosefta, Parah 4.7 73. Torah & Propagation --- Tosefta, Yebamoth 8.7 74. Seven Types of Pharisees --- Babylonian Talmud (supplement), Aboth d Rabbi Nathan 37.4 75. False Pharisees --- Babylonian Talmud, Sotah 22b Essenes & Dead Sea Scrolls 76. Essenes are Rural Poor --- Philo, Every Good Man is Free 12.75-77 77. Dead Sea Settlement of Essenes --- Pliny, Natural History 5.15.73 78. Some Essenes Marry --- Josephus, Jewish War 2.160 79. Essene Monastic Rules --- Josephus, Jewish War 2.120-126, 135-147 80. Communal Property at Qumran --- Dead Sea Scrolls, Community Rule (1QS) 1.11-13 81. Deviants from Torah Excommunicated --- Dead Sea Scrolls, Community Rule (1QS) 8.21-23 82. Directions for the Instructor --- Dead Sea Scrolls, Community Rule (1QS) 9.12-16 83. Essene Worship & Communal Meal --- Josephus, Jewish War 2.128-133 84. Communal Order at Qumran --- Dead Sea Scrolls, Community Rule (1QS) 6.2-5 85. Council of Twelve --- Dead Sea Scrolls, Community Rule (1QS) 8.1-4 Initiations: Baptism & Unity 86. Essene Initiation --- Josephus, Jewish War 2.137-142 87. The Qumran Covenant --- Dead Sea Scrolls, Community Rule (1QS) 1.1-11 88. Purification of Initiates at Qumran --- Dead Sea Scrolls, Community Rule (1QS) 3.6-12 89. Ultimate Agent of the Holy Spirit --- Dead Sea Scrolls, Community Rule (1QS) 4.18-23 90. Two Spirits --- Dead Sea Scrolls, Community Rule (1QS) 3.15-21 91. Rabbinic Proselyte Baptism --- Talmud (appendix), Gerim 1.1-5 92. Proselytes likened to Israel --- Talmud (appendix), Gerim 4.3 93. Christian Baptism --- Paul, Galatians 3.26-28 94. Christian Unity --- Paul (?), Ephesians 4.4-7, 13

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