Sadducees = "the righteous"
 1) a religious party at the time of Christ among the Jews, who denied
    that the oral law was a revelation of God to the Israelites, and
    who deemed the written law alone to be obligatory on the nation,
    as the divine authority. They denied the following doctrines:
    1a) resurrection of the body
    1b) immortality of the soul
    1c) existence of spirits and angels
    1d) divine predestination, affirmed free will