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This week, we marked the 1,945th anniversary of the destruction of the Temple and the loss of our sovereignty. What happened that day set into motion a chain of events that has led you to read ...
The Sadducees and Resurrection from the Dead (Luke 20, 27-39) This blog is written for the person who wants to enter more thoroughly into the meaning of this conflict story (Sadducees against ...
That is, the Rabbis would provide an independent interpretation of the Law, often in contradiction to the Temple practice. Such accounts of friction abound throughout the Talmud.
The Sadducees logically maintained that it is purely agricultural, ... Passover only begins a march to freedom, which culminates on Shavuot with the Festival of First Fruits in our Temple.
The series rightly portrays them as being mainly associated with the Temple, although not all Temple priests were Sadducees. Jesus' action in the Temple was a key moment in the BBC series as its ...
This is part of Rabbi Geiger’s overall thesis that the Sadducees of the latter half of the Second Temple period—as described in the writings of Josephus, the New Testament, and rabbinic ...