Sadducee : Jewish priestly sect which thrived for about two centuries before the Second Temple of Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 BC. They accepted only the first five books of the Old Testament & rejected all not taught therein, e.g. demons & angels, immortality & resurrection. They were in conflict with Pharisees.
... book of poems by Dilipda, p. 145. A Parsi lady, Amal Kiran's (K.D. Sethna) first wife. Pharisee, a member of an ancient Jewish sect; a self- righteous person. Sadducee, a member of a Jewish party of the time of Christ that denied the resurrection of the dead, the existence of spirits, and the obligation of the traditional oral law. Frederick Edwin Smith ...
... hypocrisy, the purveyor of selfish power, the keystone of a society that was everything Christ had denounced? Jesus died on the cross, for the benefit, it would seem, of those who united to slay him, the Sadducee, atheist & high priest, the Pharisee, zealot, hypocrite & persecutor and the brutal, self-seeking, callous military Roman. Now in its last state, after such a lamentable career, Christ's truth stands ...
... writers have a way of writing and preaching which gives a sense of unpleasant unctuousness, a very small dish of religious emotion swimming in a too fat oil of holiness—as if the Pharisees 7 and Sadducees 8 had not only crucified Christ but laid the grip of their ecclesiasticism and Pharisaism on the religion also. Excuse the culinary simile—a little sport, as you say—and my growl is quite private ...
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