Σαδδουκαῖος

Sadducees = &quot the righteous&quot , 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