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Zadokite, n. and a.|ˈzeɪdəkaɪt|
[f. the name of Zadok, a high priest of Israel in the time of King David + -ite1.]
A. n. A member of a Jewish sect which seceded from orthodox Judaism in the second century b.c., and traced its authority back to Zadok.
1910S. Schechter Fragments of Zadokite Work p. xxi, It is the Zadokites from which the Sect derived its spiritual pedigree. 1920Encycl. 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. 1960tr. Noth's Hist. Israel iii. ii. 316 It may also be that..some deported Zadokites returned to Jerusalem. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XIV. 190/1 The Zadokites may have constituted the survival of an ancient Jebusite (Canaanite) royal priesthood.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or designating the members of this sect; spec. applied to fragments of sectarian texts discovered in Cairo in 1896–7 and later traced back to the Dead Sea Scrolls.
1910S. Schechter (title) Fragments of a Zadokite work. 1912R. H. Charles Fragments of Zadokite Work p. vii, There is no question as to the genuineness of the orders of the Zadokite Priests and Levites. Ibid. 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. 1921J. 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[see Qumran]. 1974Encycl. 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. |