The four schools

1. The World of Jesus of Nazareth
Part II

2. Judea in the Early 1st Century

3. THE HOLY LAND UNDER HERODIANS AND ROME
Note: Judea and Galilee under different rulers

4. THE FOUR PARTIES
• THE SADDUCEES – Priests and aristocrats,
Temple establishment
• THE PHARISEES – Reformers seeking to
displace the Temple as the center of Torah life
and politics
• THE ZEALOTS – Rebels who sought to oust
Rome. Sicarii
• THE ESSENES – End of the world mystics