section_path: Role in Jewish sects/Sadducees
section_name: Sadducees
paragraph_text: Sadducees
  
  The Jewish sect of the Sadducees (Hebrew: צְדוּקִים) flourished during the Second Temple period. Principal distinctions between them and the Pharisees (later known as Rabbinic Judaism) involved their rejection of an Oral Torah and their denying a resurrection after death.