Antigonus

Sage of the second century BCE in the period of transition between the Men of the Great Assembly and the Zuggot, being a student of Simeon the Just and a teacher of the first of the zuggot (Yosé Ben Yo'Ezer and Yosé ben Johanan). Of his sayings, only one remains: "Be not like slaves serving a master for the sake of reward but like slaves serving a master without thought of reward, and fear God" (Avot 1:3). Two of his students, Zadok and Boethus, took the saying to be a denial of the World to Come and its rewards and are traditionally said to have founded the sects of the Sadducees and Boethusians with their doctrines denying Resurrection and the Immortality of the Soul (Avot de-Rabbi Natan 5:2). However, it is more likely that the former sect is linked to the line of Zadok the High Priest in the time of David.

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IN BRIEF: n. - A general of Alexander the Great and king of Macedonia.