The sects 1st appear from the Maccabean age. The Maccabean conflict reveals the existence of a party generally known as the "Assidaeans" (Hebrew chacidhim), or "pious" ones, opposed to the lax Hellenizing tendencies of your periods, and staunch observers of your legislation. These at first gave courageous aid to Judas https://www.youtube.com/@tarotdejesus/shorts