I was quite drawn out to speak to him; I hardly know how, for I had always thought of him as a worldly
Sadducee. But his countenance is as pleasant as the morning sunshine."
``Dreams, Rebecca, dreams,'' answered the Templar; ``idle visions, rejected by the wisdom of your own wiser
Sadducees. Hear me, Rebecca,'' he said, proceeding with animation; ``a better chance hast thou for life and liberty than yonder knaves and dotard dream of.
Then, gathering a large crowd around him, he mesmerized them with stories of a young man driven off by a horrid father against his brother's wishes, of children dancing at funerals, and a tale of the good
Sadducee. He also preached to them: Blessed are you who are full, for soon you will he hungry, Blessed are you who laugh, for you will weep Blessed are you who are praised to high heaven for your sinfulness, for yours is the kingdom of night When he was finished, his disciples went out gathering food from everyone, about five thousand.
Karaites consider their thought to be a continuation of
Sadducee doctrine, and the Quranites trace their origins tothe period of the second caliph in the first century of the Hijra.
As a result, the Pharisees are now ready to dismiss the case against Paul and let him go free, but a tumult develops in the midst of the assembly because the other members of the council (probably the High Priest and his
Sadducee supporters) strongly oppose this decision, forcing the Roman soldiers to intervene to save the apostle Paul.
Out of my way, centurion, step aside
Sadducee, t'wife's comin' through." Joseph waved his staff.
"I believe any serious scholar truly can't but admit that the law reflected in the scrolls is a
Sadducee law.
And so, in due course, they devised the program named soppism: and they booked Bill Ben-Smith,
Sadducee repartee artist, to stand in the front row at the sermon and to toss the curly one about the widow and her seven weeds and which stalk would stand upright after the revolution!
Cotton Mather called Calef "a very wicked sort of
Sadducee."
Burkitt identified the unknown disciple of 18:15-16 as the Beloved Disciple, deduced from his acquaintance with the high priest that the Beloved Disciple was a
Sadducee, and made the acute observation that the word `Sadducee' never appears in John, a fact which contrasts with its seven occurrences in Matthew.(36) Burkitt's view that the term was avoided because it represented an unacceptable `nickname' may require revision, however.
Their topics include Karaite and
Sadducee inheritance law in light of Yefet ben Eli's commentary on Genesis 36, a look at women's lives in Cairo Geniza society, the "custom of the merchants" in Gaonic jurisprudence in Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, the Sephardic courtier tradition revisited, two Judeo-Arabic translations of the Scroll of Antiochus from GhardaAa in Algeria, and secular trends and traditions: post-immigration debates and practices among Yemeni Jews.
In the context of claims for Essene,
Sadducee, and even Zealot authorship of the scrolls, Talmon suggests that the real value of these manuscripts is the (dim) light they throw on the `conceptual universe of Judaism and the social history of the late Second Temple period' (p.