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)...

development of, the Sadducees. The post-Talmudic work Avot of Rabbi Natan gives the following origin of the schism between the Pharisees and Sadducees/Boethusians:...

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...

Temple served as the centralized location from which the ruling groups Sadducees and the Pharisees maintained Judaism, with rivaling Essenes and Zealots...

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...

by the Sadducees. (The Samaritans practiced a similar religion, which is traditionally considered separate from Judaism.) Like the Sadducees who relied...

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...