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Jewish Sects JEWISH SECTS A Response Paper on “Three Jewish Sects and the Intertestament Period” Sharondah Duckett Southern Christian University In determining how to best respond to the sects present I had to do ask, which question presented one needs to consider the significant purpose behind the sects. Based on the research, and the effectiveness of the answered questions the three sects chosen where Pharisees, Sadducees, and Zealots. Williams says, “The rise of the Jewish sects is traceable to the impact of Hellenism on the life and the culture of the Near East. Each Sects individual development, philosophy, and history has its own foundation. Although, you can compare and contrast, that of the Pharisees and Sadducees within Intertestament period they still have separated philosophy. The Pharisees were, along with Sadducees where two of the three haereseis (“schools of thought”) that flourished among the Jews from the time of Jonathan the Hasmonean (d.143/2 B.C.E.) until the destruction of the second Temple in 70 C.E., according to Josephus Flavius. There are two different accounts about how the Pharisees and Sadducees came about. Williams, describes their history of Pharisees as being as early as “Hasidim, conservatives, sticklers for the Law and the traditions of the elders, pharisees, sadducees, jesus, jewish, matt, josephus, sects, zealots, religious, mar, lu, jews, god, first, war, time, souls, romans, new, john, fate, destruction, death, being, against, after, williams, while, way, using, trying, traditions, three, soul, sect