| A | B |
|---|
| The only Jewish sect that survived Roman invasion the led to the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE | Pharisees |
| Group of Jewish people who rejected the rebuilding of the Solomonic Temple during the Hasmonean Empire. They had their own Temple on Mt. Gerizim and were seen as outcasts by the rest of the Jews | Samaritans |
| Jewish group who possessed the Dead Sea Scrolls | Essenes |
| Jewish group that rejected the Oral Torah and belief in the resurrection of the body | Sadducees |
| The nucleus of the Maccabean Revolt | Hassidim |
| Members of this Jewish group fled to the fortress at Masada to make a last stand against the Romans | Sicarii |
| Small âtâ terrorists | Zealots |
| Community of the Essenes | Qumran |
