यीशु के समय के आसपास एक प्राचीन यहूदी संप्रदाय का एक सदस्य; फरीसियों का विरोध किया

Noun:

आत्माओं के अस्तित्व और परंपरागत नियम-पालन को नहीं मानता था, ईसा के समय के यहूदी संप्रदाय का सदस्य जो पुनर्जीवन, सैडूसी,

sadducee's Usage Examples:

The feud which set Pharisee and Sadducee against one another is ignored, and generally the condign oblivion which overtook this sect of the Jews is already beginning.

Many scholars are of opinion that the unknown author was a Sadducee, 1 but all that can be said with certainty is that he was a Palestinian Jew devotedly attached to the national cause.

The Sadducee was a Jew outwardly so long as he so retained place, power and profit.

Most authorities believe that he was a Gnostic; but while it is certain that he was not a Christian, it is possible that he was simply a Sadducee, and thus an opponent not of Judaism but of Pharisaism.

He was not a Sadducee, for he looks forward to the establishment of the Messianic Kingdom (x.).

This national feeling, claiming a leader against the Romans as well as deliverance from the Sadducee aristocracy, again sets the idea of the kingship rather than that of resurrection and individual retribution in the central place.

As for the author, he was no Essene, for he recognizes animal sacrifices and cherishes the Messianic hope; he was not a Sadducee, for he looks forward to the establishment of the Messianic kingdom (x.); nor a Zealot, for the quietistic ideal is upheld (ix.), and the kingdom is established by God Himself (x.).

With the apparent intention of restoring order in Jerusalem, he assembled the Sanhedrin, and being, as a Sadducee, cruel in the matter of penalties, secured the condemnation of certain lawbreakers to death by stoning.

sadducee's Meaning':

a member of an ancient Jewish sect around the time of Jesus; opposed to the Pharisees