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Traditional Jewish sources connect Antigonus with the origin of the Sadducees and Boethusians.These sources argue that the Sadducee group originated in tandem with the Boethusian group during the Second Temple period, with their founders, Zadok and Boethus, both being individual students of Antigonus of Sokho.
The word "Sokho" appears on certain LMLK seals during the Judean monarchy. It is believed by many scholars to be one of four cities that acted in some administrative capacity. The Mishnaic Rabbi Antigonus of Sokho, mentioned in Ethics of the Fathers (Pirkei Avot 1:3), likely came from the Hebron-region town.
The aggadic work Avot of Rabbi Natan tells the story of the two disciples of Antigonus of Sokho (3rd century BCE), Zadok and Boethus. Antigonus having taught the maxim, "Be not like the servants who serve their masters for the sake of the wages, but be rather like those who serve without thought of receiving wages", [ 5 ] his students repeated ...
He and Jose ben Joezer were the successors and, it is said, the disciples of Antigonus of Sokho, [1] and the two together formed the first of a series of duumvirates that transmitted the traditional law; according to tradition, in each pair one was the Nasi (prince or president) and the other was the Av Beit Din (Chief Justice of the Sanhedrin ...
Antigonus (historian), Greek writer on history; Antigonus of Alexandria, ancient Greek grammarian; Antigonus of Carystus, 3rd century BC Greek writer on various subjects; Antigonus of Cumae, ancient Greek writer on agriculture; Antigonus of Sokho, Jewish scholar of the 3rd century BC; Antigonus, writer on painting, mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius
The post-Talmudic work Avot of Rabbi Natan gives the following origin of the schism between the Pharisees and Sadducees/Boethusians: Antigonus of Sokho having taught the maxim, "Be not like the servants who serve their masters for the sake of the wages, but be rather like those who serve without thought of receiving wages", [2] his two pupils, Zadok and Boethus, repeated this maxim to their ...
Avot of Rabbi Natan (5:2) states that the Sadducees began at the same time as the Boethusians, and their founder was a later Zadok who, like Boethus, was a student of Antigonus of Sokho during the second century BCE. [52]
Simon the Just was one of those who survived the Great Assembly, and Antigonus of Sokho received the Torah from him. [3] The first part of this statement is paraphrased as follows in Avot of Rabbi Natan: Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi received from the Prophets; and the men of the Great Assembly received from Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. [4]