Contents of the Books on the Jewish Sects
Book I. Ten Chapters.
I. The occasion, title, and division of this book. p. 1.
II. On the names of heresy and sect. p. 2.
III. Whether there are three sects of the Jews. p. 4.
IV. Whether there are not more Jewish sects than these three. p. 6.
V. How the established triad of Jewish sects is not overwhelmed by the number of so many Jewish sects. p. 9.
VI. Whether these three sects already existed in the time of the Maccabees. p. 17.
VII. Whether at the beginning there were only two sects. p. 18.
VIII. Whether Josephus Gorionides asserts only two sects. p. 21.
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? p. 26.
X. Whether Johannes Drusius has correctly translated a few Hebrew words of Gorionides concerning the same number of Jewish sects. p. 34.
Book II. Twenty-Nine Chapters.
I. The name of the Pharisees. p. 39.
II. From what tribe and family, order, and place the Pharisees came. p. 43.
III. What were the doctrines or institutions of the Pharisees. p. 45.
IV. Whether all the doctrines or institutions of the Pharisees were evil. p. 79.
V. Whether all the Pharisees were evil. p. 89.
VI. How Christ the Lord commanded that the Pharisees sitting on Moses’ seat be heard, and yet warned that one must beware of their leaven, or doctrine. p. 93.
VII. Whether the Wise Men, Experts in the Law, Scribes, and Pharisees were the same. p. 104.
VIII. When the Lord so often says in Matthew chapter 5, “But I say to you,” whether he corrects Pharisaic interpretations of the old law, or rather adds something to the old law itself and perfects it. p. 108.
IX. Whether, in the state of the Mosaic synagogue, the Pharisees truly were heretics. p. 117.
X. Whether by the Pharisees Catholics are signified, or rather Lutherans, Calvinists, Socinians, and others of the same sort. p. 120.
XI. When the Pharisees began. p. 122.
XII. Who was the author of the Pharisaic sect. p. 124.
XIII. What authority the Pharisees had. p. 129.
XIV. By what disgraces or disasters the Pharisees were sometimes afflicted. p. 130.
XV. What the clothing of the Pharisees was. p. 134.
XVI. Whether Pharisees still exist today. p. 135.
XVII. Sayings or apophthegms of certain ancient Pharisees. p. 135.
XVIII. On the name of the Sadducees. p. 139.
XIX. Who Zadok was, the founder and father of the Sadducees. p. 141.
XX. How the sect of the Sadducees arose. p. 144.
XXI. What were the doctrines and institutions of the Sadducees. p. 145.
XXII. Whether the Sadducees were Samaritans. p. 153.
XXIII. Whether the Sadducees were Dositheans. p. 156.
XXIV. Whether, while the Mosaic synagogue stood, the Sadducees truly were heretics. p. 156.
XXV. When the Sadducees began. p. 160.
XXVI. Whether any Sadducees have survived down to our age. p. 160 [contents misprints 166; corrected from the chapter heading].
XXVII. What adverse or prosperous fortunes the Sadducees had. p. 162.
XXVIII. Whether the high priests of the Jews were at any time Sadducees. p. 165.
XXIX. Whether there are any apophthegms or sayings of the Sadducees. p. 171.
Book III. Twenty Chapters.
I. On the name of the Essenes. p. 172.
II. Which of these conjectures concerning the name of the Essenes is most probable. p. 179.
III. How the name of the Essenes should be written. p. 191.
IV. What were the doctrines or institutions of the Essenes. p. 199.
V. Whether, in the Mosaic law, the Essenes truly were heretics. p. 226.
VI. Whether the Essenes were Pharisees. p. 230.
VII. Whether the Hesseni were Hasidaeans. p. 232.
VIII. Whether the Essenes were Nazarenes. p. 244.
IX. Whether the Essenes were Rechabites, and when those men began. p. 245.
X. Whether the Essenes can be considered founders and certain models of monks and of other Christian religious. p. 261.
XI. Whether any Essenes now survive. p. 263.
XII. Where Philo writes about the Essenes. p. 265.
XIII. Whether Philo and the above-cited Josephus Flavius speak about the same Essenes. p. 266.
XIV. Words of Philo, from the Apology, concerning the Practici, or cenobitic Essenes. p. 271.
XV. Other words of the same Philo concerning the same Practici, or cenobitic Essenes, from the book On the Freedom of the Good Man. p. 275.
XVI. Concerning the theoretical Essenes, what the same Philo says in the book On the Contemplative Life. p. 281.
XVII. Whether the Essenes were Christians. p. 294.
XVIII. Resolution of the arguments by which the Essenes seem to be excluded from the number of Christians. p. 305.
XIX. On some other small questions concerning the Essenes. p. 318.
XX. Whether Johannes Drusius is a heretic. p. 336.
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