In-Class Sketches of Religious Affiliations in the Ancient World
Pharisees Sadducees Essenes
Josephus: Of priestly Moderate in regards to Anti-predestination; man Predeterminists; large descent; avowed Pharisee, punishment & discipline; is free agent; no such stake in fate; mystic composed texts for Rome More popular; Interpreted thing as fate; God is not (prophecy); radical/ (histories); written the last the laws more accurately concerned w/acts of evil sacrifices/ speaking their third of the first century CE (used scripture and by humans (collective or mind; believed in (retrospective!); writing for tradition); got in legally individual?); rigid in resurrection; good works a mainly secular / pagan w/the Roman rulers (this judging offenders; lots of benefit your soul; audience may have waned over rules but not too strict; ascetics; increased (reshaping/redefining of time); had a view of wealthy; not too popular numbers through child terms & views? E.g. resurrection for good (political?); clients to dedication; viewed with resurrection// people and eternal wealthy (pro-Roman respect; lived “in transmigration// punishment for bad tendency?); no belief in common” w/no rich or reincarnation); people; try to do eternal soul (dies w/body) poor; more severe in their everything by the work of or resurrection; opposed discipline; questionable in their own effort; freewill to authoritative rule of the eyes of many in terms oriented (moderate) – oral traditions; don’t get of actions and beliefs? ; providence but also along with each other at separatists; choice times (political); lifestyles were different than Pharisees (works related?); frequenters of philosophy (Hellenized? Connection w/upper- class?); New Testament - Agreeable to the Law; use Brood of vipers; don’t Was John the Baptizer an Matthew: the law to test Jesus & trip believe their teachings; Essene? John was a him up; Against Jesus; denied resurrection; separatist? John in the feared that Jesus was brings into question their wilderness; purity rites taking their followers; knowledge of the with baptism; separating teamed up with the scriptures; feared the from temple; apocalyptic; Herodians against Jesus people wouldn’t support (politically savvy); called them; hypocrites;