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Sadducee
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Sadducee

Member of a Jewish priestly sect that flourished for about two centuries, until the destruction (AD 70) of the Second Temple of Jerusalem. Sadducees were generally wealthier, more conservative, and better connected politically than their rivals, the Pharisees. They believed in strict interpretation of the Torah and thus rejected such ideas as immortality of the soul, bodily resurrection after death, and the existence of angels. They viewed Jesus' ministry with mistrust and are believed to have played some part in his death. Their wealth and complicity with Roman rulers made them unpopular with the common people.


Sadducee
Judaism a member of an ancient Jewish sect that was opposed to the Pharisees, denying the resurrection of the dead, the existence of angels, and the validity of oral tradition


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Most of the Kohanim belonged to the Sadduccean party and conducted their rituals according to Sadducean custom, despite the objections of the sages (who applied to some of them the verse of Proverb 10:7, "The name of the wicket will rot" (Mishnah Yoma, 3:11).
This is partly explained by viewing his reconfiguration of the context of early Christianity (Second Temple Judaism was, for Geiger, a conflict between the Pharisaic and Sadducean parties) as one way of obtaining a precedent for his own contemporary liberal reforms (16).
40) Taking a different tack, Schiffman has emphasized the Sadducean nature of the Qumran group, insisting that its members were not different from the Sadducees as described by Josephus and the New Testament.
 
 
 
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