Trihaeresium — the Jesuit Serarius's three books on the three most famous sects among the Jews: the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Essenes. Written for the understanding of various passages of both Testaments and of the ancient writers, and as an answer to Johannes Drusius's little book On the Hasidaeans, it treats the names, origins, doctrines, fortunes, and sayings of each sect in fifty-nine chapters, closing with the author's own index of things and words. Mainz, 1604. In English for the first time.
Biblical Antiquities · 17th century
The Three Sects
Nicolaus Serarius, S.J. (1555–1609) · translated from the Latin of the 1604 Mainz edition
Original Latin text — Trihaeresium at Google Books
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Contents
Book I — On the Jewish Sects
- Chapter I. The Occasion, Title, and Division of This Book pp. 1
- Chapter II. On the Names Heresy and Sect pp. 2
- Chapter III. Whether There Are Three Sects of the Jews pp. 4
- Chapter IV. Whether There Were Not More Jewish Sects Than These Three pp. 6
- Chapter V. How the Established Triad Is Not Overwhelmed by So Great a Number of Jewish Sects pp. 9
- Chapter VI. Whether These Three Sects Already Existed in the Time of the Maccabees pp. 17
- Chapter VII. Whether at the Beginning There Were Only Two Sects pp. 18
- Chapter VIII. Whether Josephus Gorionides Asserts Only Two Jewish Sects pp. 21
- Chapter IX. Since Josephus Flavius Asserts that There Are Three Jewish Sects, If Gorionides Were to Present Only Two, Which of the Two Should Rather Be Believed? pp. 26
- Chapter X. Whether Johannes Drusius Correctly Translated the Few Hebrew Words of Gorionides about the Same Number of Jewish Sects pp. 34
Book II — On the Pharisees and the Sadducees
- Chapter I. The Name of the Pharisees pp. 39
- Chapter II. From What Tribe, Family, Rank, and Place the Pharisees Came pp. 43
- Chapter III. What the Doctrines or Institutions of the Pharisees Were pp. 45
- Chapter IV. Whether All the Doctrines or Institutions of the Pharisees Were Evil pp. 79
- Chapter V. Were All the Pharisees Evil pp. 89
- Chapter VI. How Christ the Lord Ordered the Pharisees Sitting upon Moses' Chair to Be Heard, and Yet Warned that Their Leaven or Doctrine Must Be Avoided pp. 93
- Chapter VII. Whether the Wise, the Lawyers, the Scribes, and the Pharisees Are the Same pp. 104
- Chapter VIII. Whether, When in Matthew Chapter 5 the Lord So Often Says, 'But I Say to You,' He Corrects Pharisaic Interpretations of the Old Law, or Rather Adds Something to the Old Law Itself and Perfects It pp. 108
- Chapter IX. Whether, in the State of the Mosaic Synagogue, the Pharisees Were Truly Heretics pp. 117
- Chapter X. Whether Catholics Are Signified by the Pharisees, or Rather Lutherans, Calvinists, and Others of Similar Meal pp. 120
- Chapter XI. When Did the Pharisees Begin pp. 122
- Chapter XII. Who Was the Author of the Pharisaic Sect pp. 124
- Chapter XIII. What Authority Did the Pharisees Have pp. 129
- Chapter XIV. With What Disgraces or Slaughters Were the Pharisees Sometimes Afflicted pp. 130
- Chapter XV. What Was the Dress of the Pharisees pp. 134
- Chapter XVI. Whether Pharisees Still Exist Today pp. 135
- Chapter XVII. Some Maxims or Apophthegms of Certain Ancient Pharisees pp. 135
- Chapter XVIII. On the Name of the Sadducees pp. 139
- Chapter XIX. Who Was Sadoc, the Founder and Parent of the Sadducees pp. 141
- Chapter XX. How the Sect of the Sadducees Arose pp. 144
- Chapter XXI. What Were the Doctrines and Institutions of the Sadducees pp. 145
- Chapter XXII. Whether the Sadducees Were Samaritans pp. 153
- Chapter XXIII. Whether the Sadducees Were Dositheans pp. 156
- Chapter XXIV. Whether, While the Mosaic Synagogue Stood, the Sadducees Were Truly Heretics pp. 156
- Chapter XXV. When Did the Sadducees Begin? pp. 160
- Chapter XXVI. Whether Any Sadducees Have Come Down Even to Our Age pp. 160
- Chapter XXVII. What Adverse or Prosperous Affairs Befell the Sadducees? pp. 162
- Chapter XXVIII. Whether the High Priests of the Jews Were Ever Sadducees pp. 165
- Chapter XXIX. Are There Any Apophthegms or Maxims of the Sadducees? pp. 171
Book III — On the Essenes
- Chapter I. On the Name of the Essenes pp. 172
- Chapter II. Which of These Conjectures about the Name of the Essenes Is Most Probable? pp. 179
- Chapter III. How the Name of the Essenes Should Be Written pp. 191
- Chapter IV. What Were the Doctrines or Institutions of the Essenes? pp. 199
- Chapter V. Were the Essenes truly heretics under the Mosaic law? pp. 226
- Chapter VI. Were the Essenes Pharisees? pp. 230
- Chapter VII. Hessaeans or Hasidaeans? pp. 232
- Chapter VIII. Were the Essenes Nazaraeans? pp. 244
- Chapter IX. Were the Essenes Rechabites? And when did they begin? pp. 245
- Chapter X. Can the Essenes be reckoned as forerunners and certain models of monks and other Christian religious? pp. 261
- Chapter XI. Do any Essenes still remain now? pp. 263
- Chapter XII. Where does Philo write about the Essenes? pp. 265
- Chapter XIII. Do Philo and the above-cited Flavius Josephus speak about the same Essenes? pp. 266
- Chapter XIV. Philo's words from the *Apology* about the practical or cenobitic Essenes pp. 271
- Chapter XV. Other words of the same Philo about the same practical or cenobitic Essenes, from the book *On the Freedom of the Good Man* pp. 275
- Chapter XVI. On the theoretic Essenes, about whom the same Philo speaks in the book *On the Contemplative Life* pp. 281
- Chapter XVII. Whether the Essenes were Christians pp. 294
- Chapter XVIII. A Resolution of the Arguments by Which the Essenes Seem to Be Driven from the Number of Christians pp. 305
- Chapter XIX. On Certain Other Little Questions Concerning the Essenes pp. 318
- Chapter XX. Whether Johannes Drusius Is a Heretic pp. 326
- The Author's Index of Things and Words pp. 338
- The Errata Leaf pp. 350