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:
1a) resurrection of the body
1b) immortality of the soul
1c) existence of spirits and angels
1d) divine predestination, affirmed free will
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Citing in TDNT: 7:35, 992
G4523
Probably from G4524; a Sadducaean (that is, Tsadokian), or follower of a certain heretical Israelite: - Sadducee.
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University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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