02.01.08 Greeks. The Greek culture had spread throughout the Mediterranean world during the three centuries before Christ, primarily because of the military victories of Alexander ...
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02.01.08 Greeks
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02.01.09 Hasidim
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02.01.09 Hasidim. Also known as Hassidim, or Hassideans, they were an orthodox Jewish group that became popular in the third century B.C. This was a reactionary group that stood up...
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02.01.10 Hellenists
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02.01.10 Hellenists. The Hellenists were Jewish people who abandoned the laws of Judaism and accepted the Greek culture [1] (Hellenism comes from the Greek word Hellen meaning Gree...
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02.01.11 Herodians
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02.01.11 Herodians. This was a small political non-religious group, sometimes known as the Boethusians, after Boethus,[1] whose daughter Mariamne was one of the ten wives of Herod ...
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02.01.12 Idumeans
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02.01.12 Idumeans. The Idumeans, also known as the Edomites, were descendants of Esau.[1] In the Inter-Testamental Period they relocated from the Petra region of modern Jordan, wes...
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02.01.13 Jews
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02.01.13 Jews. In the Old Testament Period, particularly in the book of Esther, the name Jew was associated with all Israelites, but it originally was applied to only those who cam...
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02.01.14 Pharisees
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02.01.14 Pharisees. The Pharisees (Gk. pharisaios 5330) [1] were the dominant Jewish party that consisted of a number of religious sects, from the early second century B.C. They ...
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02.01.15 Romans
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02.01.15 Romans. The Roman Empire[1] belted the Mediterranean Sea, at times called a Roman lake, and extended into Europe. It eventually included twelve language groups and was s...
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02.01.16 Sadducees
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02.01.16 Sadducees. The Sadducees appeared on the scene after the elimination of the Greek Antiochus IV Epiphanes from power in Israel (ten northern tribes) and Judea (two southern...
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02.01.17 Samaritans
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02.01.17 Samaritans. The Samaritans claim to be descendants of Jacob, his son Joseph, and his two sons Ephraim and Manasseh. (cf. Jn. 4:12) but scholarship denies it. In 733 B.C....
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