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The Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible
... . Zealot is a term that has been associated with a movement of revolutionaries active throughout the first century CE in Roman Palestine and thus during the time of Jesus's ministry. These Zealots supposedly played the major role in the social unrest which ultimately erupted in the First Jewish Revolt against Rome in 66 ce . Jesus's teaching, and in particular speeches such as the Sermon on the Mount, have been read against the Zealots' advocacy of armed resistance against and the overthrow of the Roman occupational forces and administrators. In fact,...
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The Oxford Companion to the Bible
... . Zealot is a term that has been associated with a movement of revolutionaries active throughout the first century CE in Roman Palestine and thus during the time of Jesus' ministry. These Zealots supposedly played the major role in the social unrest which ultimately erupted in the First Jewish Revolt against Rome in 66 CE . Jesus' teaching, and in particular speeches such as the Sermon on the Mount , have been read against the Zealots' advocacy of armed resistance against and the overthrow of the Roman occupational forces and administrators. In fact,...
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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
... a member of an ancient Jewish sect aiming at a world Jewish theocracy and resisting the Romans until ad 70 . The name is recorded from the mid 16th century, and comes via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek zēlōtēs , from zēloun ‘be jealous’, from zēlos ‘zeal’. The extended sense of zealot as a person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their religious, political, or other ideals is recorded from the mid 17th...
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A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion
... Jewish freedom-fighters in the War against Rome, 66–73 ce . Josephus in The Jewish War refers to the Zealots together with other rebels against the Roman occupation. The Mishnah ( Sanhedrin 9: 6) refers to the Zealots as Kannaim , a Hebrew word with the same connotation, and generally in the Rabbinic literature an ambivalent attitude emerges towards these rebels. Modern scholarship discusses at length the relationship between the Zealots, the Sicarii (‘dagger men’), other rebels against Rome, and the Qumran sectarians, a question much discussed...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 ed.)
... . A Jewish party of revolt. According to Josephus they were one of the factions which inspired the fanatical resistance to the Romans in Jerusalem which led to its destruction in ad 70 . They have commonly been identified with 1 the followers of Judas of Gamala who led a revolt in ad 6 , and 2 the Sicarii, who refused to surrender to the Romans at Masada. There is, however, doubt about these identifications. The epithet ‘zealot’ applied to St Simon ‘the Less’ in Lk. 6: 15 may mean that he belonged to the Zealot party, or may describe his...
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
... A Jewish sect founded by Judas of Gamala in the early years of the 1st century ad , who fiercely opposed Roman domination. They fought fanatically during the great rebellion, which ended in the destruction of Jerusalem in ad 70. See also masada...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
... . Jewish resistance fighters in the Jewish–Roman War, 66–73 ce. The movement stemmed from the activities of Judah the Galilean who ‘incited his countrymen to revolt’. In the War against the Romans, one of the sons of Judah seized the fortress of Masada and took command of the Jewish forces in Jerusalem until his murder in 68 . The majority of the Zealots died in the siege of Jerusalem; Masada fell in 73 , and those who fled to Egypt were rounded up, tortured, and...
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A Dictionary of World History (3 ed.)
... The party of revolt among the Jews of Roman Palestine known for their fanaticism. Also known as Canaans after the early inhabitants of Palestine, they have been identified with the ‘Daggermen’ (‘Sicarii’) of the Jewish Revolt of 66 to 70 ad and the defenders of Masada . Simon, one of the disciples of Jesus Christ , was also known as ‘the Zealot’, meaning either that he was a member of the party, or equally likely, that he was of a ‘zealous’...
