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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.

The Sadducees, by denying the resurrection and immortality in general, renounced at the same time the entire Messianic hope, at least in that form which later Judaism had given it. And it was they and not the Pharisees who—from the stand point of later Judaism—represented a sectarian opinion. 2. The Pharisees also taught the existence of angels and spirits, while the Sadducees denied them (Acts 23:8). This statement of the Acts, though not confirmed by other testimony, is nevertheless thoroughly
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