Pharisees
authority of sages/rabbis following written and oral law inn the Sanhedrin court
Therapeutae
contemplative philosophical sect based in Egypt: communal rules and gender equality
Sadducees
associated with hereditary priests who controlled temple worship/rejected oral laws
Essenes
strict purity laws/male centric halakhah
Charedi
‘fearful’ adherents of very traditional Judaism
Chassidic
revivalist movement founded in 18th C Poland by Rabbi Baal Shem Tov - consultation of ‘rebbe’
Samaritan
Jewish community with ties to Mt Gerizim
Persians
responsible for the restoration of the temple