Expert Zealots, who could move or delete some whole categories, monitored the day-to-day operations of the non-commercial portion of the directory and acted as mentors to new members.

The members of an influential circle called the Zealots of Piety ( Russian: Кружок ревнителей благочестия Kruzhok revnitelei blagochestiya ) stood for purification of Russian Orthodox faith.

Galileans ( or Galilæans ) were also the members of a fanatical sect ( Zealots ), followers of Judas of Galilee, who fiercely resented the taxation of the Romans, and whose violence contributed to induce the latter to vow the extermination of the whole race.

He refers to the Sadducees, Jewish High Priests of the time, Pharisees and Essenes, the Herodian Temple, Quirinius ' census and the Zealots, and to such figures as Pontius Pilate, Herod the Great, Agrippa I and Agrippa II, John the Baptist, James the brother of Jesus, and a centuries-long disputed reference to Jesus ( for more see Josephus on Jesus ).

Ben-Sasson, the Sicarii, originally based in Galilee, " were fighting for a social revolution, while the Jerusalem Zealots placed less stress on the social aspect " and the Sicarii " never attached themselves to one particular family and never proclaimed any of their leaders king ".

The Sicarii Zealots who defended Masada in AD 73 were defeated by the Roman legions who built a ramp 100 m high up to the fortress's west wall.

The first surviving historical mention of the Pharisees is from the Jewish-Roman historian Josephus ( 37 – 100 CE ), in a description of the " four schools of thought ," or " four sects ," into which the Jews were divided in the 1st century CE ; the other schools were the Essenes, who were generally apolitical and who may have emerged as a sect of dissident priests who rejected either the Seleucid-appointed or the Hasmonean high priests as illegitimate ; the Sadducees, who were the main antagonists of the Pharisees ; and the " fourth philosophy " possibly associated with the anti-Roman revolutionary groups such as the Sicarii and the Zealots.

Robert Eisenman has pointed out contemporary talmudic references to Zealots as kanna ' im " but not really as a group — rather as avenging priests in the Temple ".

After the citadel is conquered, 960 Zealots under the leadership of Eleazar ben Ya ' ir commit mass suicide when defeat becomes imminent.

During the final stages of the Roman attack, Zealots under Eleazar ben Simon still held the Temple, while the Sicarii, led by Simon Bar Giora, held the upper city.

After the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple in AD 70, 960 Zealots under the lead of Elazar ben Yair took refuge by capturing the Roman fortress of Masada and taking no prisoners.

Others, nevertheless, still maintain that the remains are those of the Jewish Zealots who committed suicide during the siege of Masada, and all were reburied at Masada with full military honours on July 7, 1969.

* The Zealots lay siege on Jerusalem and annihilate the Roman garrison ( a cohort of Legio III ).

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia article on Zealots:

* Temple of Senloo ( St. Louis ) — Base from which Earth Zealots attempted to launch their attack on the Galaxy

Nathan's travels lead him to Rome to fight as a retiarius, and on his return to Palestine to become involved with the Apostles, the Zealots and the Essenes.

Fugees member Pras lightly mentioned Jeru on the track " Zealots ," from the group's landmark 1996 album The Score, with the line " No matter who you damage, you're still a false prophet ," referencing Jeru's single " You Can't Stop the Prophet.

The small Christian community did not join the Zealots in the revolt and Schweizer feels that Q thus focused on justifying this decision by focusing on the unimportance of politics compared to the spiritual.

This was followed by " The New Italy and The Old Zealots " ( La Nuova Italia ed i Vecchi Zelanti, published in 1881 ), another attack on the Vatican policy ; and by his " Royal Vatican " ( Vaticano Regio, published in 1883 ), in which he accuses the Vatican of selling sacred objects and declares that secularism came from the false principles accepted by the Curia.

The contemporary sources, notably anti-Zealot in sympathies, provide little information on the Zealots ' government of Thessalonica.

Around the 1st century CE there were several small Jewish sects: the Pharisees, Sadducees, Zealots, Essenes, and Christians.

The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.

The Romans are drawn into street fighting with the Zealots.

He retreats to the coast, but is surrounded at Beth-Horon and nearly wiped out by the Zealots.

* Jewish leaders at Jerusalem are divided through a power struggle, a brutal civil war erupts, the Zealots and the Sicarii execute anyone who tries to leave the city.

The leader of the Zealots, Simon Bar Giora, is lashed and strangled in the Forum.

After they capitulate the Zealots are allowed to leave the fortress, before it is destroyed.

* The Zealots seize power in Thessalonica, expelling its aristocrats and declaring themselves in favour of the regency in the ongoing Byzantine civil war.

In 1342, the city saw the rise of the Commune of the Zealots, an anti-aristocratic party formed of sailors and the poor, which is nowadays described as social-revolutionary.

Meanwhile the Jews had become embroiled in a civil conflict of their own, splitting the resistance in the city among two factions ; the Sicarii led by Simon Bar Giora, and the Zealots led by John of Gischala.

" It is common in hip-hop music, as for example in the song Zealots by the Fugees: " Rap rejects my tape deck, ejects projectile / Whether Jew or gentile I rank top percentile.

In the upshot, the Jewish Zealots defeated the Greeks and they retained the right to circumcise.

The Zealots of Thessalonica were influenced by Barlaam's teachings, and his arguments effected the dogmatic definition of Hesychasm in the Eastern Church.

In the decades before the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, the Jewish people in the Roman province of Iudaea were divided into several movements, sometimes warring among themselves: Saducees, Pharisees, Essenes, and Zealots.

As it was, the census did trigger the revolt of Judas of Galilee and the formation of the party of the Zealots, according to Josephus.

Brutal civil war then erupted, with the Zealots and the fanatical Sicarii executing anyone advocating surrender, and by 68 CE the entire leadership of the southern revolt was assassinated in the infighting, some at the notorius Zealot Temple Siege.

In contrast to the Gospels — which vilify Judas as a thief who stole from the Disciples ’ money purse ( John 12: 6 ) and betrayed his Master simply for money ( Luke 22: 5 )— the film portrays Judas as a much misunderstood political person who, in several scenes, conspires with the Zealots for the sake of Jewish liberation in a way that could be interpreted as honorable, albeit misguided.

* In Nikos Kazantzakis ' book The Last Temptation of Christ, Barabbas is the leader of the Zealots.

Vladko Maček, who had succeeded Radić as leader of the Croatian Peasant Party, the largest political party in Croatia, was imprisoned, and members of a newly emerging insurgent movement, the Ustaše, went into exile.

At the same time, the PDPA imprisoned, tortured or murdered thousands of members of the traditional elite, the religious establishment, and the intelligentsia.

" Thousands of their family members were imprisoned for years in work camps and jails and later exiled for decades to miserable state farms built on reclaimed marshlands.

In the 1980s, many more IRA members were imprisoned on the testimony of former IRA members known as " supergrasses " such as Raymond Gilmour.

According to contemporary John Bargrave, in 1636 members of the Spanish faction of the College of Cardinals were so horrified by the conduct of Pope Urban VIII that they conspired to have him arrested and imprisoned ( or killed ) so that they could replace him with a new pope ; namely Laudivio Zacchia.

Original founder Alberto Franceschini wrote that the imprisoned members did not understand why Moro had been chosen as a target.

The FARC-EP originally said that they would only release the police and military members they held captive ( whom they considered to be prisoners of war ) through exchanges with the government for imprisoned FARC-EP members.

Several hundred adults and children were imprisoned after members of the Justice and Equality Movement attacked Khartoum in May 2008, a disproportionate number from the Darfur region.

** The Front de libération du Québec ( FLQ ) kidnaps James Cross in Montreal and demands release of all its imprisoned members.

* Some members of the Blue and Green chariot racing factions in Constantinople are imprisoned for murder, precipitating the Nika riots the next year.

There are many tattooed yakuza members imprisoned in various Asian prisons for such crimes as drug trafficking and arms smuggling.

Abbad, in a moment of folly and rage, crucified the Jew and imprisoned the Christian members of the mission.

Opponents of Nasser in Egypt accuse him of being a dictator who committed numerous human rights violations, thwarted democratic progress, and led a repressive administration that imprisoned thousands of Egyptians who opposed him, including Communists and members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

In a 2008 interview with the Italian news network ANSA ( news agency ), Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal stated from his cell in the prison at Poissy that there had been a deal to exchange Aldo Moro for several imprisoned members of the Red Brigades.

Apprehended after having taken part in a bank robbery with other SLA members, Hearst was imprisoned for almost two years before her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter.

The Bastille was used to investigate and break up Protestant networks by imprisoning and questioning the more recalcitrant members of the community, in particular upper-class Calvinists ; some 254 Protestants were imprisoned in the Bastille during Louis's reign.

MOVE has also called for the release of imprisoned MOVE members, whom the group considers political prisoners.

ln 2001, several MRTA members remained imprisoned in Bolivia.

Many members of the Yishuv who had resisted the British administration were imprisoned in a detention camp at Latrun.

Its first mission, " Operation Feuerzauber " ( Operation Fire Magic ), immediately established the GSG 9's reputation as an elite unit, It was carried out in 1977 when Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Landshut, a Lufthansa plane on the way from Palma de Mallorca to Frankfurt, demanding that imprisoned members of the German Red Army Faction terrorist group be freed in exchange for the passengers and crew who would be held as hostages.

In January 2002, he was arrested by the Palestinian Authority under pressure from the United States and the United Kingdom and imprisoned in Jericho prison along with several other PFLP members accused by Israel of involvement in the Zeevi assassination.

During the Blackest Night, the Guardians finally realize the accuracy of the prophecy and are imprisoned by Scar ; a rogue Guardian who launches an attack on the Corps by reviving deceased members as Black Lanterns.

In 2005, members of Rahman ’ s legal team, including lawyer Lynne Stewart, were convicted of facilitating communication between the imprisoned Sheikh and members of the terrorist organization Al-Gama ' a al-Islamiyya in Egypt.