SPECIAL TOPIC: COMPARISON OF SADDUCEES AND PHARISEES

	SADDUCEES	PHARISEES
Origin	Maccabean Period	Maccabean Period
Name Means	"Zadokities"?	"Separated Ones"?
Social Status	Priestly Aristocracy	Middle Class Laymen
Scriptural Question	Written Law only	All of the Oral & Written Law
	(especially Genesis	plus the Prophets and Writings
	through Deuteronomy)	sections of the OT canon
Theology	Conservative	Progressive
	‒ just the opposite	‒ highly developed angeology
	of Pharisees, who	‒ belief in life after death
	were accused of	and resurrection
	being influenced	‒ very structured rules for daily life
	by Zoroastrianism
	(cf Acts 23:8)