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Rabbinical Judaism subsequently developed from the Pharisees.
The Rabbis continued to demonstrate three of the characteristics we have
come to expect from the Indo-Hittite compression. They supported oral
tradition, believed in the immortality of the soul, and sought to eliminate
the matriarchal religion of the Great Triple Mother Goddess and frowned
on so-called messianic bloodlines.
The Pharisees developed standards of jurisprudence to such a
degree that they recognized man as fallible and an unlikely paragon of
virtue. They defined greatness in a sovereign as mercy in the judgment of
others and greatness in a man as overcoming one’s own inherent bad side
and doing Yahweh’s work. Indeed, the Pharisees took pride that many of
the Torah’s great personae were seriously flawed. 526 Awkward Moses
depended upon Aaron for strong leadership. After disobeying Yahweh,
Moses died before reaching the Promised Land. Lecherous David
coveted his neighbour’s wife and sent the unfortunate cuckold to certain
death. So stained with war and death was David that Yahweh prevented
him from building the Temple of Peace. Solomon tolerated many foreign
wives sacrificing to false gods. Fratricidal Cain, fraudulently misleading
Jacob, cowardly Jonah, inept Rehoboam, the list goes on.
Now, the Pharisees descended from Benjamin. This provided
them with a great depth of tradition and legitimacy because Benjamin was
the last son of Jacob and Rachel in Harran. Another Benjamite, King
Saul, was the hero who delivered Israel from the Philistines. 527 Finally,
Judah and Benjamin were the only two tribes that remained faithful to
Rehoboam, the son of Solomon.
We have seen that the term Sadducee, as used by the Pharisees,
means sectarian and potentially heretical. This generic term encompassed
all sectarian groups including the widely differing Herodian-Sadducees,
remaining Maccabean-Hasmonaeans, Chassidim and Zaddoki. These
various groups were so completely unrelated in philosophical perspective
that it is not very helpful to refer to all of them as Sadducees.
In the next chapter, we use this background to understand Jesus
the Nazarene from political and religious perspectives. He was one of the
many brave messiahs of the Hasmonaean-Zaddoki in the turbulent time of
Roman occupation.
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