Sadducees
A tradition no longer extant within Judaism. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Sadducees is recorded within Judaism and is no longer extant. Also written Tsedukim.
Origin
No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. NULL: the second of Josephus's three philosophies, associated with the priestly aristocracy of the Jerusalem Temple. No founder or founding date is recorded in the sources. The party does not survive the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Sadducees.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-sadducees.
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title = {Sadducees},
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howpublished = {English version},
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note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.