This religious group violently opposed the successors of John Hyrcanus, causing a civil war ending in a takeover of the region by Pompey. They believed in the Oral Torah, or the unwritten traditions or laws, did not take the law completely literally, and believed in a resurrection of the dead. In the Gospel of Mark, some rebuke Jesus for healing a 
This religious group violently opposed the successors of John Hyrcanus, causing a civil war ending in a takeover of the region by Pompey. They believed in the Oral Torah, or the unwritten traditions or laws, did not take the law completely literally, and believed in a resurrection of the dead. In the Gospel of Mark, some rebuke Jesus for healing a man's withered hand on the Sabbath, and members of this group are depicted as hypocrites. FTP, name this Jewish faction which evolved into rabbinic Judaism, the opponents of the Sadducees.          |
This religious group violently opposed the successors of John Hyrcanus, causing a civil war ending in a takeover of the region by Pompey.
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