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Jewish Heroes List (by Roman Piso)

These are Jewish leaders who fought a long war against the Sadducean hierarchy, the Herodians, and the Flavians and Pisos. They were fighting for freedom, against slavery, for basic human rights, and for a democratic government. They were teaching rational thought, reasoning, and practical ethics. They were forced to pretend to teach religion outwardly in order to survive. They knew they could only make the changes they desired IF and WHEN they attained the power/authority to do so. They lost their war and Christianity came to exist to prevent another war again for the same purpose by making believers content with their situation in life. These Jewish heroes were of the Pharisees, Essenes and Scribes. In the year 6 CE, the Essene sect became known as Scribes, and were pacifist helpers of the Pharisees; mostly helping by writing the Talmud. Thus, the name of "Scribes" for this sect.

1. Hillel the Pharisee.
2. Sadduc the Pharisee.
3. Judas of Galilee.
4. Theudas the Pharisee.
5. Jacob ben Judas.
6. Simon ben Judas.
7. Benjamin the Egyptian.
8. Eliezer ben Yair.
9. Rabbi Akiva.
10. Bar Cochba.
11. Rabbi Hanina ben Teradion.
12. Gamaliel I.
13. Gamaliel II.
14. Simon I (ben Hillel).
15. Simon II (ben Gamaliel).
16. Jeshia ben Gamaliel (son of Gamaliel I, aka Jesus ben Gamaliel).
17. Simon ben Natanel.
18. Judas ben Yair.
19. Menahem (ben Judas).
20. John the Essene.
21. Eliezer ben Hyrcanus.
22. Joshia ben Hananiah.
23. Yochanan ben Zachai.
24. Shammai.
25. Pollio the Pharisee.
26. Eleazar (of the Pharisees).
27. Eleazar ben Simon.

The Jewish leaders of the Pharisaic sect had been at war with the Hasmonean leadership for many years. The Pharisees were so popular with the common people and had gained both public support and wealth from contributions from the public because they were fighting on their behalf, that it finally forced the hand of the Hasmonean leadership, to the point, where the Pharisees were actually running things.

But once they had gained this authority and position of power, the enemies of the Pharisees called upon Rome's help to overthrow their power and influence. That is when Rome made Herod king of Judea and thus, in that sense, king of the Jews. Whereas before, the Hasmonean leadership were also the leadership of the Sadducean sect, the leadership of that sect then transferred to King Herod and his sons. To make this a more formal and binding transition, King Herod was then married to Mariamne I, daughter of Alexandra Regent of the Hasmoneans; his own cousin.

The Hasmoneans were aka the Maccabees. And King Herod was a descendant of Eleazer Auran of the Hasmoneans. The leaders of the Pharisees & Scribes (formerly Essenes) were perhaps among the world's first Secular Humanists. Notice that I said the "leaders" were. It appears to this researcher that their followers were being educated and taught to think, reason and to lean towards rational thought instead of religion & superstition.