| A | B |
|---|
| Upper class priests in control of the Temple prior to 70CE | Sadducees |
| 1st century Jewish ascetics that had communal property and lived a quasi-monastic way of life on the fringes of society | Essenes |
| The "separated ones" | Pharisees |
| The "pious ones" | Hassidim |
| 1st century political group in Palestine who were supporters of the Romans and accepted Hellenization | Herodians |
| 1st century group in Palestine that was extremely opposed to Roman rule and would not pay taxes. They terrorized their political opponents and Roman rulers | Zealots |
| A radical off shoot of the Zealots. They were assassins. Their name literally means “daggerman” | Sicarii |
| Not a religious group per se but a group of learned men whose occupation included writing legal documents, religious documentation, copying the Torah, and publicly reading the Scriptures and other documents | Scribes |
