This is about as good as I'm going to be able to do today. It should be almost every meaty statement about Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, 4th Philosophy and Therapeutae that I could find in the writers Philo, Josephus, Hippolytus, Epiphanius or Eusebius. If you find any passages I may have missed (not off-hand comments mentioning a group in passing, but meat and potato stuff), please let me know so I can add to the table.
Hindley, David C |
Philo |
Philo |
Josephus |
Josephus |
Hippolytus |
Epiphanius |
Eusebius |
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(c)2018 | De vita contemplative (On a Life of Contemplation) | Quod omnis probus liber sit (That Every Good Man is Free) | Wars of the Jews | Antiquities | Refutation of all Heresy | Panarion (sects 1-46) | Church History |
Pharisees | None | None | 2:162-163; 166a | 13:172a, 288, 297a, 298c; 18:12-15 | 9.23b-24a | sect 16 | 4.22.7 "Pharisees" |
Sadducees | None | None | 2:164-165; 166b | 13:173a, 297b-298b; 18:16-17 | 9.24b | sect 14 | 4.22.7 "Sadducees" |
Essenes | None | 1:75-91 | 2:119b-161 | 13:172b; 18:18-22 | 9.13-20, 22-23 | sect 10 | 4.22.7 "Essenes" |
4th Philosophy or Judas the Galilean | None | None | 2:118 | 18:4-10, 23-25; | 9.21? "Other Essenes" known as Zealots and Sicarii & adherents No Lord but God | None | 1.5.6 Judas the Galilean; 4.22.7 "Galileans" |
Therapeutae | 1:1-90 | None | None | None | None | Discussed in sect 29 Nazoreans (they are "really" Christians as described in Acts) | 2.17.3-24 (They are really Christians as described in Acts) |
What's weird about Philo is that he never even mentions the words "Pharisee" or Sadducee." He describes Essenes in a separate book from that in which he describes the Therapeutes. They are distinct groups to him.
What's weird about Epiphanius is, well, everything. Now a couple of Philo's treatises seem to have been circulated in several versions, usually smaller subjects get split off, so there could have been a book Epiphanius had read that dealt with Ἐσσαίων, which he thinks is functionally equivalent to .
This will be filled out as I go.
Enjoy
DCH
Edit 1/6/18: Corrected errors as I noted them.