Bible Dictionaries
Zealot

Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament

　　ZEALOT (Gr. [Note: T Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah [Edersheim].] i. 237 ff.) dates the rise of the party from the accession of Herod the Greatζηλωτής ‘because of his personal character either before or after his call,’ as St. Paul (Galatians 1:14) styles himself παραδόσεων. See also Cananaean.

　　E. H. Titchmarsh.

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