A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations/Zealots

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*ZEALOTS, or ZELOTS, the followers of Judas of Galilee, who (like many others) committed all manner of excesses, under pretence of zeal for God and his law.[1]


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  1. Josephus' Antiq. lib. 18. Stackhouse's Hist. of the Bible, vol. v. p. 130.