Afrocentric leadership reflections on Sadducees, Pharisees, and Essenes in the Second Temple Era

Abstract

In honour of Prof. Mazamisa, chronology, at its correctness, is viewed as the cornerstone of understanding every successful elaboration of any historical origination and leadership in realities through the perspective of the reader, text and two horizons. Second Temple period groupings’ identities are not immune to such perspective of historical order at foundational dimensions and towards the higher unfolding of origination and leadership narrations, aiming to place or show them correctly in their context. The three Afrocentric generations’ lessons and perspectives of leadership surfaced within the Second Temple three groupings context as an art of affirmative indigenous knowledge wisdom in origination and leadership chronologies from anti-colonialism and apartheid different generations. As Second Temple groupings, only Essenes, Pharisees and Sadducees are zoomed in to understand their correct historical chronology of originations and leadership through the three Afrocentric generations’ lessons and perspectives of leadership. This is aimed at surfacing an understanding of cause and reaction, advantages and disadvantages within similarities and differences, identities and actions from three Second Temple groupings context affirmed by the three Afrocentric different generations’ lessons perspective of leadership.
Contribution: This article aims to showcase the comparative leadership lessons from the Second Temple era and early Christianity of the Sadducees, Pharisees and Essenes through Afrocentric perspectives in line with Mazamisa’s reader, text and two horizons. It is a lesson within theology, sociology, political sciences, and other fields of study to show the importance of comparative lessons drawn from the Second Temple groups and the Afrocentric leadership perspectives of different generations.