The sects 1st appear within the Maccabean age. The Maccabean conflict reveals the existence of a party known as the "Assidaeans" (Hebrew chacidhim), or "pious" kinds, against the lax Hellenizing tendencies in the moments, and staunch observers from the law. These in the beginning gave brave guidance to Judas Maccabeus, https://bookmark-media.com/story19680651/short-for-dummies