The sects initially appear during the Maccabean age. The Maccabean conflict reveals the existence of a party often known as the "Assidaeans" (Hebrew chacidhim), or "pious" types, against the lax Hellenizing tendencies with the occasions, and staunch observers on the law. These at first gave brave assistance to Judas Maccabeus, https://www.youtube.com/@tarotdejesus