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The term zealot, the common translation of the Hebrew kanai (קנאי , frequently used in plural form, קנאים , kana'im), means one who is zealous on behalf of God. The term derives from Greek ζηλωτής ( zelotes ), "emulator, zealous admirer or follower".
The Zealots were a revolutionary party opposed to Roman rule, one of those parties that, according to Josephus inspired the fanatical stand in Jerusalem that led to its destruction in the year 70 CE. [9] Luke identifies Simon, a disciple, as a "zealot", which might mean a member of the Zealot party or a zealous person. [9]
We know little about the attitudes of the Zealots to this controversy, but it is a fact that one of their leaders, Andreas Palaiologos, sought spiritual guidance to St. Savvas, one of the leading Hesychasts. The movement was probably also influenced by the Bogomilism, a Christian heresy, which was present in the region since the 9th century.
Articles relating to the Zealots, a political movement in 1st-century Second Temple Judaism which sought to incite the people of Judea Province to rebel against the Roman Empire and expel it from the Holy Land by force of arms, most notably during the First Jewish–Roman War (66–70).
The Sicarii [a] (“Knife-wielder”, “dagger-wielder”, “dagger-bearer”; from Latin sica = dagger) were a group of Jewish Zealots, who, in the final decades of the Second Temple period, conducted a campaign of targeted assassinations and kidnappings of Roman officials in Judea and of Jews who collaborated with the Roman Empire.
Zealotry, described by Josephus as one of the "four sects" of Judaism during his time, was a political movement in first century Judaism which sought to incite the people of Iudaea Province to rebel against the Roman Empire and expel it from the Holy Land by force of arms, most notably during the First Jewish–Roman War (66-70 CE).
Religious fanaticism (or the prefix ultra-being used with a religious term (such as ultra-Orthodox Judaism), or (especially when violence is involved) religious extremism) is a pejorative designation used to indicate uncritical zeal or obsessive enthusiasm that is related to one's own, or one's group's, devotion to a religion – a form of human fanaticism that could otherwise be expressed in ...
The Codex Alexandrinus, the Vulgate Latin translation, and Syriac translations read "Hasideans" (Ἀσιδαῖων, Asidaíon); however, the Codex Sinaiticus, the Venetus, and Old Latin translations only read "Judeans" (Ιουδαίων, Ioudaíon) instead.