soon after the destruction of the Temple, whereas the Pharisees were hardly affected by that event. The Sadducees and the Pharisees did not comprise the whole of first-century Palestinian Judaism. Rather, there was a multitude of sects and groups of which little or nothing is known. Among these we must mention the Essenes, to whom the majority of authors attribute the famous “Dead Sea Scrolls,” and about whom, therefore, we know more than about the other groups. Thus, there was within Judaism a wide