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\ifdefiningfootnotes
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\DeclareFixedFootnote{\fnPhariseesSadducees} {
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Roughly speaking, the Pharisees were more traditionalist
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and the Sadducees more accommodating to Hellenistic culture and Roman authority.
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}
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\else
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\begin{glossarytext}
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\section{Pharisees and Sadducees}
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The Pharisees were members of one of the most important and influential religious and political parties of Judaism
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in the time of Jesus.
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According to Josephus (a 1st century Jewish historian) there were more Pharisees than Sadducees
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--- more than 6,000 Pharisees around this time.
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The Pharisees were strict and zealous adherents to the laws of the OT
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and to numerous additional traditions such as angels and bodily resurrection.
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Roughly speaking, the Pharisees were more traditionalist
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and the Sadducees more accommodating to Hellenistic culture and Roman authority.
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\end{glossarytext}
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\fi
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