
1) Opponents of the Sadducees 2) Pious frauds 3) Sect condemned by Jesus 4) Sect opposed to the Sadducees
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1) Sect
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The Pharisees (z) were at various times a political party, a social movement, and a school of thought in the Holy Land during the Second Temple period, beginning under the Hasmonean dynasty (140–37 BCE) in the wake of the Maccabean Revolt. After the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, Pharisaic beliefs became the liturgical and ritualisti...
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