Chapter LVII: Section CXIV: The Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes. GENERAL

QUESTIONS: I. Describe the influences that gave rise to the party of the Pharisees. 2. Of the Sadducees. 3. The characteristics and beliefs of the Pharisees. 4. Of the Sadducees. 5. The political influence of these parties. 6. The characteristics of the sect of the Essenes. 7. Their beliefs.

SUBJECTS FOR SPECIAL RESEARCH: 1. The party of the Pharisees. Hastings, _D.B._, III, 821-8; _En. Bib._, IV, 4321-9. 2. The Sadducees. Hastings, _D.B._, IV, 349-51; _En. Bib._, IV, 4234-40. 3. The points of contact between Essenism and Christianity. Hastings, _D.B._, I, 767-72; _En. Bib._, II, 1396-1400; Thomson, _Books which Influenced Our Lord_, 75-122; Cheyne, _Origin of the Psalter_, 418-21, 446-9.