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Judean-Samaritan Feud

• 56. Assyrians Occupy Samaria [722 BCE]
  --- 1 Kings 17:5-6, 24-34

• 57. Why Jews Exclude Samaritans
  --- Kuthim 2.7

• 58. Samaritan Temple
  --- Josephus, Antiquities 11.340-346

• 59. Temple Rivalry
  --- Josephus, Antiquities 13.74, 77-79

• 60. Samaritans Desecrate Judean Temple
  -- Josephus, Antiquities 18.29-30

• 61. Murdered Galilean Avenged
  ---- Josephus, Jewish War 2.232-237

Pharisees & Sadducees

• 62. Three Jewish Sects
  --- Josephus, Jewish War 2.119

• 63. Argument over Oral Torah
  --- Josephus, Antiquities 13.297-298

• 64. Principles & Popularity of Pharisees
  --- Josephus, Antiquities 18.12-15

• 65. Sadducees differ from Pharisees
  --- Josephus, Jewish War 2.164-166

• 66. Rabbinic Lament over Sadducean Brutality
  --- Tosefta, Mena^chot^h 13.21

• 67. Tradition of the Elders
  --- Mishna, Abot^h 1.1

• 68. Standards for Disciples
  --- Mishna (supplement), Abot^h de R. Nathan A 3

• 69. Hillel justifies Oral Tradition
  --- Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat^h 31a

• 70. The Yoke of Torah
  --- Mishna, Abot^h 3.5

• 71. Deviants from Torah Rejected
  --- Mishna, Abot^h 3.12

• 72. Saying & Doing
  --- Tosefta, Parah 4.7

• 73. Torah & Propagation
  --- Tosefta, Yebamot^h 8.7

• 74. Seven Types of Pharisees
  --- Babylonian Talmud (supplement), Abot^h de R. Nathan 37.4

• 75. False Pharisees
  --- Babylonian Talmud, Sotah 22b

Essenes & Dead Sea Scrolls

• 76. Essenes are Rural Poor
  --- Philo, Every Good Man is Free 12.75-77

• 77. Dead Sea Settlement of Essenes
  --- Pliny, Natural History 5.15.73

• 78. Some Essenes Marry
  --- Josephus, Jewish War 2.160

• 79. Essene Monastic Rules
  --- Josephus, Jewish War 2.120-126, 135-147

• 80. Communal Property at Qumran
  --- Dead Sea Scrolls, Community Rule (1QS) 1.11-13

• 81. Deviants from Torah Excommunicated
  --- Dead Sea Scrolls, Community Rule (1QS) 8.21-23

• 82. Directions for the Instructor
  --- Dead Sea Scrolls, Community Rule (1QS) 9.12-16

• 83. Essene Worship & Communal Meal
  --- Josephus, Jewish War 2.128-133

• 84. Communal Order at Qumran
  --- Dead Sea Scrolls, Community Rule (1QS) 6.2-5

• 85. Council of Twelve
  --- Dead Sea Scrolls, Community Rule (1QS) 8.1-4

Initiations: Baptism & Unity

• 86. Essene Initiation
  --- Josephus, Jewish War 2.137-142

• 87. The Qumran Covenant
  --- Dead Sea Scrolls, Community Rule (1QS) 1.1-11

• 88. Purification of Initiates at Qumran
  --- Dead Sea Scrolls, Community Rule (1QS) 3.6-12

• 89. Ultimate Agent of the Holy Spirit
  --- Dead Sea Scrolls, Community Rule (1QS) 4.18-23

• 90. Two Spirits
  --- Dead Sea Scrolls, Community Rule (1QS) 3.15-21

• 91. Rabbinic Proselyte Baptism
  --- Talmud (appendix), Gerim 1.1-5

• 92. Proselytes likened to Israel
  --- Talmud (appendix), Gerim 4.3

• 93. Christian Baptism
  --- Paul, Galatians 3.26-28

• 94. Christian Unity
  --- Paul (?), Ephesians 4.4-7, 13