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Zealots , Jewish faction traced back to the revolt of the Maccabees (2d cent. BC). The Zealots were organized as a party during the reign (37 BC-4 BC) of Herod the Great, whose idolatrous practices they resisted. Later (c.AD 6), when Cyrenius, the Roman governor of Syria, attempted to take a census, the Zealots, under Judas of Galilee and the priest Zadok, arose in revolt against what they considered a plot to subjugate the Jews.

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