| Sadducees = "the righteous"
1. a religious party at the time of Christ among the Jews, who denied that the oral law was a revelation of God to the Israelites, and who deemed the written law alone to be obligatory on the nation, as the divine authority. They denied the following doctrines: 1) resurrection of the body 2) immortality of the soul 3) existence of spirits and angels 4) divine predestination, affirmed free will |