WHAT WERE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE SADDUCEES AND THE PHARISEES ?

Source: Wikipedia Encyclopedia

For most of their history, Pharisees defined themselves in opposition to the Sadducees. Conflicts between the Sadducees and the Pharisees took place in the context of much broader conflicts among Jews in the Second Temple era that followed the Babylonian captivity of Judah. One conflict was class, between the wealthy and the poor. Another conflict was cultural between those who favored hellenization and those who resisted it. A third was juridico-religious between those who emphasized the importance of the Temple and those who emphasized the importance of other Mosaic laws and prophetic values.