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Sadducees (Σαδδουκαῖος, Saddoukaios). One of the three main Jewish schools of thought during the Hellenistic (Hasmonean) and Roman eras. Sadducean writings are no longer extant; reconstructions are dependent on meager textual evidence from outside the movement. The Scriptures possessed supreme authority for the Sadducees, to the exclusion of oral traditions from former generations. The Sadducees denied the resurrection and the existence of fate.
Recent scholarship has questioned earlier assumptions that the Sadducees were of aristocratic or priestly status (Goodman, “Place of the Sadducees”). Current debates also center on whether the Sadducees had their own traditions of interpretation (Regev, Sadducees; Sanders, Judaism, 333–35). The dates of their origin and demise as a movement remain shrouded in mystery.
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