Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Moshe Shulman <mshulman AT ix.netcom.com>]

At 08:58 AM 12/29/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>The Sadducees and Essenes, which some scholars say are different branches
of the same
>philosophy, based their outlook on the Temple.  They had no stragegy for
surviving the
>Temple's destruction.  On the other hand, the Pharisees did.  If, indeed,
it is later

I would here have to disagree. The DSS are filled with tirades against the
temple as it was. They seemed to be independant of the temple.


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