With a name perhaps derived from the Temple priest during Solomon's time, Zadok, for 10 points what was this aristocratic, priestly clan of Jerusalem, the rivals of the Pharisees?
This clan's interpretation of biblical law led them to reject immortality of the soul and resurrection, and their rejection of the application of purity laws to anyone outside the Temple and its priests led their antagonists to consider their women menstrually impure. Closely allied with the Boethusians, their influence reached its peak under John Hyrcanus and Alexander Janneus, though their power in the Gerousia was eliminated in the reign of Queen Salome Alexandra, who supported their primary rivals. Their main dispute with those rivals was this clan's rejection of oral law and all practices not named in the Pentateuch. With a name perhaps derived from the Temple priest during Solomon's time, Zadok, for 10 points what was this aristocratic, priestly clan of Jerusalem, the rivals of the Pharisees?
This clan's interpretation of biblical law led them to reject immortality of the soul and resurrection, and their rejection of the application of purity laws to anyone outside the Temple and its priests led their antagonists to consider their women menstrually impure.
Sadducees