From The BBC: Rare ancient scroll found in Israel Cave of Horror

[Beastly Boy]

29. What I found interesting in your post was that while the Pharisees morphed into

the rabbinical Judaism movement that survives to this day, there has not been much source information about the fate of the Sadducees, which were just as prominent as the Pharisees prior to the destruction of the Temple. Ironically, the Pharisees survived in part because they were at one point sanctioned by Emperor Vespasian (whose son Titus is credited for destroying the Temple). The Sadducees, on the other hand, being already hellenized to a large degree, found it much easier to blend into the fabric of the Roman Empire and assimilate. I always thought that was exactly what happened, but the find reported in the article you cited suggests that there were Jews besides the former Pharisees slash founders of Rabbinical Judaism who adhered to Judaism while worshiping in Greek, the language that was favored by the Sadducees. This is what I find so cool. It's like suddenly finding potential evidence for the long lost tribe of Israel that was not expected to survive past the destruction of the first Temple.

Totally Indiana Jones material!