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A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ, Second Division, Vol. II is unavailable, but you can change that!

With this text you gain a window into the world in which Jesus lived. This volume answers fundamental questions on the political environment of the Jews in the first century. Few resources can match this book in terms of precision and quality of information.

Pharisees arises from their legal tendency, that of the Sadducees from their social position.10 The Pharisees were simply those who were specially exact about the interpretation and observance of the law, hence they were the rigidly legal, who spared themselves no pains and privations in its punctual fulfilment. “They were considered to interpret the law with accuracy.”11 “They valued themselves upon their accurate interpretation of the law of their fathers.”12 “They renounce
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