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	Sadducee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As to the Torah itself, the Sadducees are presented as interpreting it literally and rigorously on subjects it directly covers, while rejecting the Rabbinic traditions that mitigate the harsher penalties or aim at preventing unintentional rule-breaking.
		However there is evidence that there was an internal schism among those called "Saducees" - some whom rejected Angels, the Soul, and Resurrection - and some which accepted these teachings and the entirety of the Hebrew Bible.
		In regard to the following records of the Talmud, one must keep in mind that the histories regarding the Saduccees were written by a people who defeated them, and may contain many inaccuracies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saducees (1257 words)

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		Representing the aristocracy, and the priesthood of the Jerusalem Temple, they were a kind of theological caste who drew their legitimacy from the hereditary status of the priesthood back to Aaron, the brother of Moses.
		As all established groups, the basic position of the Saducees was a conservative one; a position that served to reinforce the status quo.
		Outside of the writing of Josephus, the Saducees are known from the rabbinic traditions of the Mishna, and from the Greek-Christian Bible (the New Testament).
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Valley/1046/9710/971029_i.html (1730 words)

	Pharisees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Emergence of the Saducees, Essenes, and Pharisees
		There is a record of only one high priest (Ananus, in 62) being a Saducee, although some scholars assume, based purely on speculation, that the Sanhedrin was dominated by Saducees.
		This is not true — the Saducees were committed to obeying the commandments of the Torah, and the Essenes governed themselves through elaborate rules and regulations (Josephus does claim that the Pharisees were the "strictest" observers of the law, but he likely meant "most accurate").
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pharisee (7401 words)

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		Saducees The origin of this Jewish sect cannot definitely be traced.
		The only reference to them in the Gospels of Mark (12:18-27) and Luke (20:27-38) is their attempting to ridicule the doctrine of the resurrection, which they denied, as they also denied the existence of angels.
		They were probably the successors of the Assideans (i.e., the "pious"), a party that originated in the time of Antiochus Epiphanies in revolt against his heathenizing policy.
	www.ida.net /users/rdk/ces/definitions2.html (803 words)

	Encyclopedia: Cultural and historical background of Jesus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There is a record of only one high priest (Ananus, in 62) being a Saducee, although scholars generally assume that the Sanhedrin was dominated by Saducees.
		Whereas Saducees favored a limited interpretation of the Torah, Pharisees debated new applications of the law and devised ways for all Jews to incorporate purity practices (hitherto limited to the Temple) in their everyday lives.
		Unlike the Saducees, the Pharisees also believed in the resurrection of the dead in a future, messianic age.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cultural-and-historical-background-of-Jesus (10700 words)

	bibleteacher.org: Studies on the Christian Scripture
		The Saducees were the liberal Hellenistic Jews that also sprang up during the Syrian period.
		The Saducees were a minority party that was very unpopular in Israel, though they had great influence in the political Temple and in the Sanhedrin.
		The Saducees did not believe in a literal resurrection from the dead.
	www.bibleteacher.org /Dm_os072.htm (2094 words)

	Dual Identity, Jews By Choice
		The Pharisees and the Saducees were in control of the religions conscience of the nation of Israel at the time of the birth of Jesus and the Apostles.
		The Saducees held the same: if a Gentile was not converted to their religious philosophy, then the conversion was considered invalid.
		Thus, converts to the two branches of Judaism, the Pharisees and the Saducees, were said to be converts to the people of Israel and thence afterward to be considered joint heirs of the same promises and covenants.
	www.jesus-messiah.com /prophecy/dual-identity1.html (3931 words)

	Cultural and historical background of Jesus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Around this time the Saducee party emerged as theeties of Judaism were more hellenized than others, but none was an island unto itself.
		The Essenes were another early movement, who are believed to have rejected either the Seleucid appointed high priests, or the Hasmonean high priests, as illegitimate.
		The meaning of the name is unclear; it may refer to their rejection of Hellenic culture or to their objection to the Hasmonean monopoly on power.
	www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Cultural_and_historical_background_of_Jesus (6912 words)

	Sadducee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As tothe Torah itself, the Sadducees are presented as interpreting it literally and rigorously on subjects it directly covers, whilerejecting the Rabbinic traditions that mitigate the harsher penalties or aim at preventing unintentional rule-breaking.
		None of the writings we have about Sadducees present their own side of these controversies, and it is possible that positionsattributed to "Sadducees" in later literature are meant as rhetorical foils forwhatever opinion the author wishes to present, and do not in fact represent the teachings of the sect.
		There is, however, some evidence that Sadducees survived as a minority group within Judaism up until early medieval times.Some of these Saducees survived and became part of the Karaites, according to someof the Karaite writings.
	www.therfcc.org /sadducee-96047.html (1014 words)

	HOMILY GRITS 27C, November 11, 2001
		They were the Saducees, their name coming from the name of Zadok, one of the high priests of King David's time.
		The question in the story is posed by males, and it is posed to develop the way in which the patriarchy is maintained: dominant males, their names passed on to children, and children have significance only by having the father's name and memory bestowed upon them, even if through a relative.
		It does not occur to the Saducees that the universe might be made some other way, that beyond their concern for the male domination of the human family, there might very well be another way of looking at things.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~lcrew/homilygrits00_02/msg00004.html (2443 words)

	Religious and Political Background of Judea-Samaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Hasmonian family were Saducees and in succession to the position of High Priest.
		Jannaaeus died and his wife Alexandra brought peace to the land for about 15 years when the Pharisees seeking revenge, restarted the war then went to general Pompeii of the Romans to "bring peace" to the land.
		In response to this corruption, a number of Saducees split off and departed into the wilderness (and other places) and formed what became the Essenes, setting up their own "temple" and system of sacrifices and offerings, done in the wilderness.
	www.yashanet.com /studies/matstudy/mat5ba.htm (647 words)

	Recipio - Volume 13, Issue 6
		When Paul cried out in his trial before the Sanhedrin, "Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged," many assume that his reference to the resurrection was meant merely as a diversion.
		Paul referred to the resurrection because of the division between the Pharisees and the Saducees on this topic, and not because the doctrine of the resurrection was pertinent to the issue at hand.
		In Acts 23 we are told that the Saducees denied the existence of resurrections, angels, spirits (23:8).
	www.credenda.org /issues/13-6recipio.php (846 words)

	bibleteacher.org: Will we know, Part 2
		The Saducees were humanists and extreme liberals, believing and emphasizing the here and now rather than the future plan of God.
		For, you see, the Saducees and that liberal system that bore their name did not believe in the resurrection of the dead, nor of life after death.
		However, the carnal Christian who had backslidden into the old religious system of Saduceeism could not accept the historic reality that Jesus Christ had resurrected from the dead, for to accept this would be to admit that there was and will always be a resurrection of the dead.
	www.bibleteacher.org /wwkpt2.html (3544 words)

	Essenes - Wikipedia
		They were opposed to the Pharisees and Saducees.
		Many scholars believe that the community at Qumran that produced the Dead Sea Scrolls was an offshoot of the Essenes.
		A smaller number of scholars believe that the Dead Sea sect may be an offshoot of the Saducees.
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Essenes (139 words)

	Sermon by The Rev’d Robert M. Odom
		You see by the time the Saducees come to question Jesus in the Gospel of Luke, one gets the distinct impression that the wheels of the power structure in Jerusalem are turning, and the political machinery is churning.
		Further, the Saducees provide Jesus with a perfectly reasonable explanation as to why the Resurrection of the Dead is impossible, all he has to do is agree, and the nightmare that he has foreseen would simply vanish.
		So in this encounter with the Saducees, we are presented with the image of a man for whom both political power and certain suffering and death are within easy reach, a man in the midst of a city and a people ripe for a change in leadership.
	www.christchurchcovington.com /Sermons/ser111101.htm (761 words)

	Denver Catholic Register - Local News
		Referring to Luke 20: 27-40, Father Kilgallen related the account in which Jesus was approached by the Saducees and asked to resolve a hypothetical situation in which a woman married seven brothers in turn, each of whom died without leaving an heir.
		Father Kilgallen explained that the Saducees regarded the Penteteuch, the first five books of the Bible, as authoritative concerning the doctrine of the Jewish faith.
		When Jesus told the Saducees that they had "erred greatly," he was telling them that they failed to grasp God's love and mercy, according to Father Kilgallen.
	www.archden.org /dcr/archive/20000920/2000092007ln.htm (582 words)

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		This means that they would have called themselves like that because in their eyes, they were just and, most importantly, because as was the case with other members of the wealthy elite of Jerusalem, they believed to have a right to share in the excersice of power in Israel.
		The available evidence shows that they were active for about two centuries, starting on the 1st century B.C.E. Most Saducees came from wealthy families and thus, had access to a good education.
		As it is the case with other religious groups of the time, the activities in which the Saducees were engaged in were not only cultic in nature but also political.
	coqui.metro.inter.edu.ms /fmorales/Co4b.HTM (397 words)

	Re: A newly translated Tablet of Baha'u'llah mentions Jesus' Literal Resurrection
		This was precisely that the Saducees did not accept the concept of bodily (material) resurrection.
		He also reminds the Saducees that God conveyed this to Moses in the burning bush, which we know is not a literal burning bush but an analogy.
		Further, it was precisely the Saducees' bone of contention that resurrection could not be a bodily affair because they had never witnessed such a thing.
	www.bahai-library.com /wwwboard/messages02/222.html (776 words)

	NewPhar
		On the left were the Saducees, those aristocratic liberals whose skepticism took away so much from the word that God had given to Israel.
		And on the right were the Pharisees, whose legalistic self-righteousness and pride of race blotted out a gospel of Messianic grace and substituted the traditions of the elders and other additions to the word of God.
		This book was written because there is a new and fast growing cult on the American Right that constitutes a revival of Phariseeism as it has never before been seen in this land.
	www.amprpress.com /newphar.htm (310 words)

	Homily for November 12
		In today's Gospel we have a classical example of rabbinical argumentation, the exchange of scriptural references to prove a point (not unlike the argument between Jesus and the Devil during the Temptation in the Desert).
		His opponents, this time the Saducees, representatives of the high priestly class, try to trick him with a reference to the legal requirements of marrying the widow of one's relatives.
		It is important to understand that the quote by itself hardly proves human survival (though perhaps it hints at it).
	www.agreeley.com /homilies95/nov1295.html (335 words)

	Catholic-Pages.com \| Discussion Forum - For Sam, where did you get that?
		The Sanhedren was dominated by the Pharisees at this point, although it had been dominated by the Saducees for a very long time before that.
		The Saducees didn't use the same books and didn't beleive in the possibility of the resurrection.
		Meanwhile as the Jewish Christians had spread the rabbis became more concerned and had a Council in about 90AD to set their Scripture and they went with the saducees to be different from the CHristians.
	www.catholic-pages.com /forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=67&whichpage=4 (3339 words)

	One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism
		Being baptized in convert baptism meant you were joined to that body, that group, and you were expected to support that groups doctrines, beliefs, and practices.
		In saying "one hope" and not pointing back to the Law and that system, or the Pharisees and Saducees and their convert hopes, Paul was establishing that the Church and all of its converts have no hope in old Judaism but only in that of the Cross.
		For Paul to say "one baptism" was to nullify all other Jewish convert baptisms by the Pharisees and Saducees, and for that matter any other form of lustration performed in pagan temples.
	members.aol.com /rojayfx/onelord.html (1348 words)

	Sunday Sermon: "We have met the enemy, and he is us!"
		Unlike the Pharisees, who were essentially a lay movement, the Saducees were likely associated with the priesthood.
		Nine times out of ten, they either explained it away as statistical error, “corrected” the data to make it fit, and in some cases were unable to even notice the data.
		Evidently, scientists have just as much problems as the Saducees in opening their eyes to seeing things in new ways.
	www.saintnicks.com /sermon_detail.php?ID=62 (1207 words)

	The Saducees and Jesus' Trial
		Roman appointed Saducees are not Jewish leadership, but collaborators.The same with the Herodians.
		As I have said before, the Saducees and their leader, the high priest, were collaborators with Rome.
		That is why Paul, who based on this evidence, was probably a Saducee (or at the very least, a collaborator and Roman sympathiser, he did, after all, have Roman citizenship and he turned to the Romans when latter he ran into trouble), was there at Stephan's stoning because he was one of the Temple police.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Prairie/1551/history/saducee1.htm (2578 words)

	Jewish Denominations from WUJS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pharisees (from whom modern Jews are descended) believed in the authority of both the written and the oral law.
		They maintained that the existence of an oral law permitted the written law to be reinterpreted accordingly.
		The Saducees rejected almost all oaral law and interpreted the Bible literally.
	www.wujs.org.il /activist/learning/judaism/denominations.shtml (462 words)

	Resurrection of the Dead
		The Saducees, like the modernists of our day, did not believe in certain things, one of which was the resurrection of the dead.
		This was no discomfort at all to the Saducees, however it put the Pharisees in an untenable position.
		The doctrines of both the Jewish Saducees and some Gentile schools of philosophy could influence the church.
	members.datafast.net.au /~sggram/f957.htm (835 words)

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