sadduceeism (Meaning)
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sadduceeism (n.)
Alt. of Sadducism
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- The Sadducees were a sect within Judaism that emphasized a strict interpretation of Torah law and denied the existence of angels, spirits, and resurrection.
- Sadduceeism flourished in the Second Temple period and wielded significant political power.
- The Sadducees believed that only the written Torah was authoritative, rejecting the oral tradition and later rabbinic interpretations.
- They held that there would be no resurrection of the dead and that the afterlife was irrelevant to their beliefs.
- Sadduceeism differed from Pharisaism, another prominent Jewish sect of the time, which embraced a more liberal interpretation of Torah law and believed in resurrection.
- The Sadducees allied themselves with the priestly aristocracy and controlled many positions of religious leadership in the Temple.
- Their authority was undermined by the rise of rabbinic Judaism in the first century CE.
- The Romans granted Sadducism a privileged status as the official religion of Judea, but its influence declined after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE.
- Sadduceeism is considered to have become defunct as a distinct sect by the end of the first century CE.
- Some scholars believe that traces of Sadduceeism may have persisted in certain Karaite Jewish communities.
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The Sadducees were a sect within Judaism that emphasized a strict interpretation of Torah law and denied the existence of angels, spirits, and resurrection.
Sadduceeism flourished in the Second Temple period and wielded significant political power.
The Sadducees believed that only the written Torah was authoritative, rejecting the oral tradition and later rabbinic interpretations.
They held that there would be no resurrection of the dead and that the afterlife was irrelevant to their beliefs.
