G4523

Saddoukaios

sad-doo-kah'-yos

Noun Masculine

probably from G4524; a Sadducaean (i.e. Tsadokian), or follower of a certain heretical Israelite:--Sadducee.

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