Second, the Sadducees had no time for laws other than those in the Bible (or possibly, other than those in the Pentateuch). This viewpoint is set over against those who follow ‘the traditions of the elders’, a pretty clear reference to the Pharisees, who, though their elevation of such traditions to the status of absolute law may be doubted,212 certainly maintained, and applied to themselves at least, a large body of such traditions.
