Zadokiten.adj.

1910 S. Schechter Fragments of Zadokite Work p. xxi It is the Zadokites from which the Sect derived its spiritual pedigree.

1920 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics XI. 43/2 The Sadducees were thus not a religious party at all, but simply a body of people bound together by a common interest to maintain the existing régime. The name is explained as meaning ‘Zadokites’, and was given to them by their opponents, the Pharisees, who borrowed it from an earlier age..when the descendants of Zadok, who then filled the high-priestly office, identified themselves with Hellenism in its most dangerous forms.

1960 tr. Noth's Hist. Israel iii. ii. 316 It may also be that..some deported Zadokites returned to Jerusalem.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XIV. 190/1 The Zadokites may have constituted the survival of an ancient Jebusite (Canaanite) royal priesthood.

1910 S. Schechter (title) Fragments of a Zadokite work.

1912 R. H. Charles Fragm. of Zadokite Wk. p. vii There is no question as to the genuineness of the orders of the Zadokite Priests and Levites.

1912 R. H. Charles Fragm. of Zadokite Wk. p. x The Zadokite Party represents an attempt at reform beginning within the ranks of the priesthood and extending outwards so as to embrace a strong lay element.

1921 J. Moffatt Approach to New Testament i. 60 In the so called Zadokite document of Jewish piety, just before the days of Jesus, the idea of a new covenant, a covenant of repentance, began to be linked to the expectation of a messiah.

1954 Biblical Archaeologist 17 8 Represented..is a fragment of the ‘Zadokite work’. This document, long an enigma to scholars, had been recognized as related to the Qumran sectarian works as soon as the finds of 1947 became known.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia II. 938/2 Another sectarian book of ordinances is the Damascus Document (the Zadokite Fragments). The work was already known from two medieval copies before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, but fragments of it also were found in Qumrān.