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Chapter 9 Hasmonaeans, Pharisees & Zaddoki
By the time of King David, the power of the sacrificing Levite
and Aaronic priests was waning. David created an additional High Priest
position alongside the High Priest of Aaron who was Abiathar. He
installed a local Jebusite called Zadok in this position to administer the
religion of Yahweh. 512 The Jebusites were elite Hurrians. Zadok, or
Sadak, a supernaturally endowed snake priest of Brahm, traced his
ancestry to the legendary Melchizedek, Abraham’s teacher of a
millennium before. 513
About four hundred years after David, King Josiah and the
Zaddoki expelled the Aaronic High Priesthood altogether. 514 After the
return from Exile, Zerubbabel and Jesus ben Yehozedek, the Son of the
Zadokite High Priest who had recommenced control of the Temple,
rebuilt the Second Temple.
Then, in 444BCE, Nehemiah ejected the Zaddoki from Temple
Mount. His reasons are unknown although the implication is that the
Zaddoki were out of touch with the assembly in Jerusalem. However, the
Zaddoki were still present one hundred and fourteen years later when the
Assyrian Greeks forcibly removed the High Priest Onias III in about
330BCE. The Zaddoki continued to support the Onian High Priesthood.
The Dionysian Artificers who settled in Israel sometime before
one thousand BCE founded the Cassidens or Assideans that later became
the Chassidim. 515 They claimed to possess a special knowledge unknown
to the mass of the people and the true knowledge of the scriptures
transmitted to their order by Moses on Mount Sinai. 516
While this knowledge relates to Liberality, discussed in Chapter
7, it would also have included those laws first revealed to Moses in the
wilderness. These were the Mosaic rules governing tithes, shewbread,
wine-libations and sacrifices. 517
The Chassidim developed a particular system of written and oral
law that brought them respect as a school of interpreters of the Law. On
return from the Exile, the Chassidim adopted a moral code formulated by
the descendants of the Aaronic Priests. 518 From the Chassidim arose the
Pharisees and Rabbinical Judaism. The Sons of Zadok are mutually
exclusive; the line of Zadok does not include any of the twenty-four
Aaronid clans. 519
The commitment of the Chassidim to the common law led them
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