Sadducees: or Sadducees is said to have been a Jewish religious group or parties with some political leanings. They did not believe in the resurrection of the dead. These were attached only to the Pentateuch .
Precisely, Jesus quotes a text in his answer. “… I am the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and he is not the God of the dead, but of the living!” interpreting it with the sense that the living God cannot be the God of the dead and, therefore, if he is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, they must still be “alive” and must rise again. ( Mt. 22.23-33; 22.32; Acts 4.1-2; 23.8 )
This religious group only cared about Jesus when they feared that he would make Rome turn their attention to Israel , which they did not want. This is how they allied with the Pharisees to end what was to them the Christian threat . Since Jesus on more than one occasion severely rebuked them.
Summary
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- 1 Etymology of the word
- 2 History, culture, art and religion
- 3 Examples of use and phrases
- 4 Sources
Etymology of the word
The term Sadducees has its origin in Hebrew and comes from צדוקים , ṣĕdūqī from Sādōq which is the name of its founder. From there it is taken by the Latin that transforms it into Sadducaeus with the meaning of the followers of the High Priest Sadoq , a name that means righteousness and justice .
Its definition as an adjective is from Sadduceeism . As an adjective, it is the one professed by Sadduceeism .
Synonyms of Sadducee Zadokita
History, culture, art and religion
Its origin is considered towards the second century BC to disappear towards the year 70 AD with the destruction of Jerusalem .
Already in the time of Jesus they had lost part of their power because the Romans took away their religious power and influence by choosing the High Priest. It was an aristocratic Jewish priestly sect and they belonged to the upper class of society and for that reason all the conquerors sought their support to subdue the people .
They were collaborators in politics since they submitted to foreign power, in addition to adopting their culture and fashion, that is why they were very hated by the whole of society. They presented a submissive attitude towards the conquerors that allowed them to access important public positions.
These religious were very wealthy and occupied most of the 70 seats of the council called Sanhedrin . But even being more, on many occasions they had to agree with the Pharisee minority , because it was more popular among the people. Although they were more concerned with politics than with religion, they had doctrinally much more conservative beliefs in this regard than the Pharisees. For them the only word of God to follow was the written one, the one found in the Bible . Contrary to the Pharisees who gave the same authority to the written law as to the oral.
Among his doctrinal beliefs , many of which nevertheless contradict the Bible are:
- Denial of God’s intervention in a person’s daily life.
- Denial of any life after death.
- Their doctrine holds that the soul perishes at the moment of death, that is why they did not believe in any punishment or reward after life on earth.
- Denial of the resurrection of the dead.
- Denial of any spiritual world such as angels and demons.
Usage examples and phrases
- “Although the Phariseesand Sadducees were great rivals, they put aside their differences in the trial of Jesus to put him to death.” In this example, it is used in the sense of union with the Pharisees even though they were rivals to end Christ. Is plural noun
- “The historian has found a memoir of a Sadducee priest that is a written document where it speaks of the preservation of the Word of Godwritten in Genesis to Deuteronomy .” Here, it applies to the documentation of this sect. It is a singular adjective.
- “The Sadducees did not believe in the immortality of the souland therefore neither in the resurrection of the bodies.” In this case it refers to one of your beliefs. It is a plural noun.
