... . The reason for the split between the Pharisees and the Saducees/Essenes, was a matter of differences in their "halakha, "or law. Schaper explains, "One particularly interesting aspect of Pharisaic halakha is its leniency in the various matters of ritual purity, while, "The Essenes ruled that the whole of the city of Jerusalem was to be understood as the 'holy camp' of Lev. 4: the temple is the tent of 'meeting', Jerusalem is the 'camp'. "With their more lenient expectations of Jews, the Pharisees ... appears as though the Jews were in constant search of the time their oppression would ...

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