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==Name==

==Name==

The New Testament and Josephus implies a connection with the verb "to be righteous," but the Talmud suggests a derivation from the name of their founder, a high priest named "Zadok". The most prominent Zadok in history was the high priest mentioned in ''2 Samuel'' 8:17 and 15:24; and in ''1 Kings'' 1:35, from whom all succeeding high priests claimed descent. It is in harmony with this that in the New Testament the Sadducees are the party to whom the high priests belonged. On the authority of 'Abhoth de-Rabbi Nathan (1000 AD) another Zadok is asserted to be the one from whom the Sadducees received their name. He was a disciple of Antigonus of Socho (250 BC) who taught that love to God should be absolutely disinterested (''Pirqe 'Abhoth'', i.3). 'Abhoth de-Rabbi Nathan's account of the derivation of the Sadduceanism from this teaching could be an imaginary deduction, with the majority of authoritative writers prefering to derive the name from Zadok, the colleague of Abiathar, the contemporary of David.

The New Testament and Josephus implies a connection with the verb "to be righteous," but the Talmud suggests a derivation from the name of their founder, a high priest named "Zadok". The most prominent Zadok in history was the high priest mentioned in ''2 Samuel'' 8:17 and 15:24; and in ''1 Kings'' 1:35, from whom all succeeding high priests claimed descent. It is in harmony with this that in the New Testament the Sadducees are the party to whom the high priests belonged. On the authority of 'Abhoth de-Rabbi Nathan (1000 AD) another Zadok is asserted to be the one from whom the Sadducees received their name. He was a disciple of Antigonus of Socho (250 BC) who taught that love to God should be absolutely disinterested (''Pirqe 'Abhoth'', i.3). 'Abhoth de-Rabbi Nathan's account of the derivation of the Sadduceanism from this teaching could be an imaginary deduction, with the majority of authoritative writers preferring to derive the name from Zadok, the colleague of Abiathar, the contemporary of David.

==Authorities==

==Authorities==

==Relation to Jesus==

==Relation to Jesus==

====Denounced less by Jesus than the Pharisees====

====Denounced less by Jesus than the Pharisees====

As the doctrines and practices of the Sadducees were quite alien from the teaching of Jesus and the conduct He enjoined, it is a problem why He did not denounce them more frequently than He did. Indeed He never denounces the Sadducees except along with their opponents the Pharisees; whereas He frequently denounces the Pharisees alone. As His position, both doctrinal and practical, was much nearer that of the Pharisees, it was necessary that He should clearly mark Himself off from them. There was not the same danger of His position being confused with that of the Sadducees. Josephus states that the Sadducees had influence with the rich; Jesus drew His adherents chiefly from the poor, from whom also the Pharisees drew. The latter opposed Him all the more that He was sapping their source of strength; hence, He had to defend Himself against them. Further, the Gospels mainly recount the Lord's ministry in Galilee, whereas the Sadducees were chiefly to be found in Jerusalem and its environs; hence, there may have been severe denunciations of the Sadducees that have not come down to us.

As the doctrines and practices of the Sadducees were quite alien from the teaching of Jesus and the conduct He enjoined, it is a problem why He did not denounce them more frequently than He did. Indeed, He never denounces the Sadducees except along with their opponents the Pharisees; whereas He frequently denounces the Pharisees alone. As His position, both doctrinal and practical, was much nearer that of the Pharisees, it was necessary that He should clearly mark Himself off from them. There was not the same danger of His position being confused with that of the Sadducees. Josephus states that the Sadducees had influence with the rich; Jesus drew His adherents chiefly from the poor, from whom also the Pharisees drew. The latter opposed Him all the more that He was sapping their source of strength; hence, He had to defend Himself against them. Further, the Gospels mainly recount the Lord's ministry in Galilee, whereas the Sadducees were chiefly to be found in Jerusalem and its environs; hence, there may have been severe denunciations of the Sadducees that have not come down to us.

====Attitude of Sadducees to Jesus====

====Attitude of Sadducees to Jesus====