The Samaritans are not depicted as descending from Sadduccees. The green line goes behind the Sadduccees box not through it.
Samaritans are a first temple sect of Hebraic religion.
“The Samaritans are not depicted as descending from Sadduccees. The green line goes behind the Sadduccees box not through it.”
Didn’t catch this. Ignore the end of my last post, then, except that Karaites would be the descendants of Sadducees, intellectually.
(Karaite sprang up of its own accord much later, but their thinking is very similar to Sadducees.)