History of New Testament Times in Palestine

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. But good advice is seldom more than a luxury, and the history of the Jews was to centre about the strug gles between the two other tendencies which began during these years to show themselves so clearly. Indeed, the two hundred and fifty or three hundred years preceding the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus may be said to be filled with little else than the grad ual and unobserved triumph of legalism in the persons of the Pharisees over ritualism, whether in the persons of the Sadducees or of the nation as a whole.