Vieira, Fernando Mattiolli. Variedade e proximidade dos grupos judaicos dos séculos II a.C. a I d.C. Roda da Fortuna, v. 8, n. 1, (2019), 499-516

The Jewish groups from the second century BCE to the first century CE have beenconsidered in the last decades by an approximate perspective, starting from thecommon characteristics among them. Many of them come from the ancienttraditions, present in the sacred texts of national scope. However, others have noparallel in biblical history, but are present among groups of that period. The purposeof this article is to show that these characteristics are not the result of borrowings,but result from the political pressures that leveled the religious and socialexperiences of all those groups that were present in a wide and structured networkof interdependencies.