Sadducees
Pharisees
Zealots
Tax Collectors
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100
The Sadducees did not believe in this unlike many Jews.
What is the afterlife?
100
The reason to why their was so much tension between the Sadducees and the Pharisees.
What is because the Pharisees were the chief political and religious rivals of the Sadducees?
100
Which words describes the Zealots better, peaceful or violent?
What is violent?
100
Were the tax collectors hated or loved by the Jews?
Hated.
100
This group of people were chosen to be in that group based on wealth or social status. They were the intermediaries between God and mortals.
What are the priests? SIDE NOTE: The priests were supposed to be chosen based on character, but this was usually not the case. Because of this, priests were usually hated by the common people.
200
Not all Sadducees were priests, but they were all part of a certain class. Name the class and explain why this was important.
They were all part of the Jewish upper class, and it was important because that meant they had high political power.
200
Where did the Pharisees originate from and what were they better known as?
What is the Hasidim and they were best known as the pious one because of their adherence to the law?
200
This was the main goal of the Zealots.
What is to overthrow the Roman leaders?
200
What could the tax collectors do with the extra money they collected?
They could keep it.
200
This person was the head of the priestly caste. He lived in a palace, and everyone (involved in politics especially) wanted to be on his good side.
What is the high priest?
300
This book was the only one accepted by the Sadducees. It included the first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures.
What is the Torah, The Pentateuch, or the Law?
300
DAILY DOUBLE: Unlike the Sadducees, what made the Pharisees become more respected by the common people?
What is because they rejected any of the attempts by the political leaders to compromise and they accepted more books in the Scriptures?
300
Why did the Zealots hate the Romans?
Because they thought that the Jews could never truly be independent when the Romans were ruling over them.
300
The Syrian Greeks heavily taxed the Jews in order to help pay off debts to this group of people.
What are the Romans?
300
This group of people acted as the senate in Israel. It consisted of 70 members from different tribes like the scribes, the Sadducees, and the Pharisees.
What is the Great Sanhedrin?
400
This place was the main power base of the Sadducees. Why did it became the power base?
What is Jerusalem? It was the power base because of their great commitment to the church and its sacrificial worships?
400
What enabled the Pharisees to survive the fall of the Temple unlike the Sadducees?
What is because they were more committed to the Law than the Temple?
400
This was the suspected origins of the Zealots' beliefs. Bonus: How long ago before Jesus' time was this? (worth 100 extra points)
What is the revolt that the Jews made against Syrian Greek overloads 200 years ago.
400
DAILY DOUBLE: The Jews had to pay this tax in addition to the state tax. Altogether, the Jews had to spend about 40% of their family income on taxes.
What is the Temple tax?
400
This group of people consisted of writers, jurists, and interpreters of the Law.
What are the scribes?
500
After the Destruction of the Temple by the ________ in ________ they eventually died out.
Romans and 70 C.E.
500
This is the book and the passage from the Bible in which Jesus commented on the Pharisees and caused them to hate him.
What is Matthew 23:13-36?
500
This is the Zealots overview of Jesus
What is they liked him at first because he was a good leader, but they eventually rejected him because he was a strong pacifist?
500
This was another name for the tax collectors.
What are the publicans?
500
TWO PART QUESTION! (250 points each) 1. This person was the most respected of the scribes. 2. Scribes that taught in synagogues were called this.
1. What is the doctor of the Law? 2. What is a rabbi?
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