Events Tagged: "Pharisees"

Pharisee-Sadducee split emerges - John Hyrcanus breaks with Pharisees, joins aristocratic Sadducees, religious parties crystallize

Jannaeus crucifies 800 Pharisees - watches from banquet as victims' families killed before their eyes, thousands flee

Hillel and Shammai establish rival schools - Two approaches to Jewish law: Hillel lenient, Shammai strict

Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai escapes Jerusalem in coffin - Establishes academy at Yavneh, saves Judaism from destruction

Council of Jamnia begins - Rabbinic Judaism reorganizes without Temple, begins fixing Hebrew canon, Birkat ha-Minim added to prayers