and the Pharisees. The earliest rabbinic texts in which these discussions appear are the Mishnah and the Tosefta (Lightstone 1971:206–17; Rivkin 1969/70:205–49). The Mishnah, edited ca. 220 C.E. (Neusner 1981), contains several passages in which the Sadducees disagree with the Pharisees; in most of these texts, the two groups dispute over matters of purity: Yad. 4.6, whether or not Scripture renders the hands unclean; whether or not the bones of an ass or the high priest are clean; Yad. 4.7, whether
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