Sadducees = "the righteous"
- 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:
- resurrection of the body
- immortality of the soul
- existence of spirits and angels
- divine predestination, affirmed free will