Jewish Contemporaries of Jesus: Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes Book

	Abbreviations and References
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	Pharisees and Sadducees: The Sources	5
1	Flavius Josephus	5
2	The New Testament	21
3	Rabbinic Statements	38
Ch. 2	Pharisees and Sadducees: Their Teachings	67
1	Tenets of Faith	67
2	DIfferences with Respect to the Law	73
3	Tradition and Interpretation of Scripture	88
Ch. 3	Pharisees and Sadducees: Their History	96
1	Beginnings in the Maccabean Period	96
2	The Hasmonean Period	104
3	Under Herod	114
4	Up to the Destruction of Jerusalem	117
Ch. 4	Essenes, Pharisees, Sadducees	123
1	The Hasmonean Period	124
2	Under Herod	130
3	The Essenes and the Insurrection against Rome	138
Ch. 5	After 70 C.E.: Break or Continuity?	140
	Glossary	148
	Selected Bibliography	150
	Indexes	157