A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations/Zealots

by Hannah Adams

*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]

Original footnotes

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