Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Note on transliterations
- Introduction
- Additional note: controversies against Sadducees and/or Boethusians
- 1 Josephus
- 2 Mishnah
- 3 Tosefta
- 4 Babylonian Talmud
- 5 Palestinian Talmud
- 6 Other rabbinic works
- 7 Megillath Ta'anith
- 8 Dead Sea Scrolls
- 9 Apocryphal works
- Bibliography
- Indexes
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Note on transliterations
- Introduction
- Additional note: controversies against Sadducees and/or Boethusians
- 1 Josephus
- 2 Mishnah
- 3 Tosefta
- 4 Babylonian Talmud
- 5 Palestinian Talmud
- 6 Other rabbinic works
- 7 Megillath Ta'anith
- 8 Dead Sea Scrolls
- 9 Apocryphal works
- Bibliography
- Indexes
Summary
Ant. xiii.171–3 (5.9)
‘Now at this time there were three schools of thought (haireseis) among the Jews, which held different opinions concerning human affairs; the first being that of the Pharisees, the second that of the Sadducees, and the third that of the Essenes.[172] As for the Pharisees, they say that certain events are the work of fate, but not all; as to other events, it depends upon ourselves whether they shall take place or not. The sect of Essenes, however, declares that fate is mistress of all things, and that nothing befalls men unless it be in accordance with her decree.[173] But the Sadducees do away with fate, holding that there is no such thing and that human actions are not achieved in accordance with her decree, but that all things lie within our own power, so that we ourselves are responsible for our well-being, while we suffer misfortune through our own thoughtlessness. Of these matters, however, I have given a more detailed account in the second book of the Jewish History.’
Cf. 1.12 (11ff.); 1.18 (162ff). See also 1.2 (297f.).
Ant. xiii.288–300 (10.5–7)
As for Hyrcanus, the envy of the Jews was aroused against him by his own successes and those of his sons; particularly hostile to him were the Pharisees, who are one of the Jewish schools, as we have related above.
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- Jesus and the Pharisees , pp. 77 - 98Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1973