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Definition of Sadducees

Sadducee
Sadducee Sad"du*cee, n. [L. Sadducaei, p., Gr. ?, Heb. Tsadd[=u]k[=i]m; -- so called from Ts[=a]d[=o]k, the founder of the sect.] One of a sect among the ancient Jews, who denied the resurrection, a future state, and the existence of angels. -- Sad`du*ce"an, a.

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- Pharisees and the Sadducees. Macon: Mercer University Press. ISBN 978-0-86554-729-2. "Sadducees" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905. "Sadducees" by Kaufmann...
- elite Sadducees, who were the upper class. Pharisees claimed Mosaic authority for their interpretation of Jewish religious law, while Sadducees represented...
- arguments with the Sadducees on points like legal grounds for divorce, the existence of angels, spirits, and an afterlife (Sadducees did not believe in...
- sign except the Sign of Jonah (16:1–4) The yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees (16:5–12) Peter's confession (16:13–20) Jesus predicts his death (16:21-26)...
- the Pharisees and Sadducees. In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism...
- intended to betray him. 28 Tevet (81 BC) – Shimon ben Shetach ejects the Sadducees from the Sanhedrin, replacing them with his Pharisaic disciples loyal...
- middle-class Jews who stood in opposition to the Sadducees, the priestly caste who dominated the Temple cult. The Sadducees rejected the legitimacy of any extra-biblical...
- Zadok the high priest in The First Temple, and that the leaders of the Sadducees were in fact the "Sons of Zadok". However, there are other theories about...
- Temple served as the centralized location from which the ruling groups Sadducees and the Pharisees maintained Judaism, with rivaling Essenes and Zealots...
- the "fourth sect" of 1st-century Judaism (the first three being the Sadducees, the Pharisees, and the Essenes). Josephus blames this fourth sect for...