Zealots

Zealots
קנאים
Leader
Founded6 CE
Dissolved73 CE
Headquarters
Ideology
ReligionSecond Temple Judaism

The Zealots were a political movement in 1st-century Second Temple Judaism which sought to incite the people of Judaea Province to rebel against the Roman Empire and expel it from the Holy Land by force of arms, most notably during the First Jewish–Roman War (66–70). Zealotry was the term used by Josephus for a "fourth sect" or "fourth Jewish philosophy" during this period.