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1. Zadok or Zadoc (zãdo:k) is a small village about Birjand
   Birjand
   
   Birjand is the east iranian provincial capital of South Khorasan and the centre of the county Birjand resp. Quhestan, known for its saffron, barberry, rug and handmade carpet exports....
   .
2. Zadok is a Hebrew name, meaning "righteous".

Hebrew Bible

1. Zadok (High Priest)
   Zadok (High Priest)
   
   Zadok or Zadoq was an Israelite Kohen in the tenth century BC....
   :The first high priest of the Israelites in Jerusalem after it was conquered by David.
2. The father of Jerusha, who was wife of King Uzziah, and mother of King Jotham
   Jotham of Judah
   
   Jotham was the king of kingdom of Judah, and son of Uzziah of Judah with Jerusha, daughter of Zadok. He took the throne at the age of twenty-five ....
    (2 Kings 15:33; 2 Chr. 27:1).
3. "The scribe" set over the treasuries of the temple by Nehemiah
   Nehemiah
   
   Nehemiah or Nechemya is a major figure in the Babylonian captivity history of the Jews as recorded in the Bible, and is believed to be the primary author of the Book of Nehemiah....
    along with a priest and a Levite
   Levite
   
   In Jewish tradition, a Levite is a member of the tribes of Israel of Levi. When Joshua led the Israelites into the land of Canaan, the Levites were the only Israelite tribe who received cities but no tribal land "because the Lord the God of Israel himself is their possession"....
    (Nehemiah
   Book of Nehemiah
   
   The Book of Nehemiah is a book of the Hebrew Bible, historically regarded as a Ezra-Nehemiah of the Book of Ezra, and is sometimes called the second book of Ezra....
    13:13).
4. The son of Baana, one of those who assisted in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem
   Jerusalem
   
   Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
    (Neh. 3:4).
5. The Hebrew term for Sadducees
   Sadducees
   
   The Sadducees were members of a Jewish sect and were rivals of the Pharisees , founded in the 2nd century BC. They ceased to exist sometime after the destruction of the second Temple in Jerusalem in 70AD....
    (Zadokim), the Priestly
   Kohen
   
   A kohen is a Jew who is a direct male descendant of the Bible Aaron, brother of Moses, with a separate status in Judaism. Another term for the descendants of Aaron are the Aaronites or Aaronids....
    sect during the time of the Second Temple
   Second Temple
   
   The Second Temple was the reconstructed Temple in Jerusalem which stood between 516 BCE and 70 CE. During this time, it was the center of Judaism worship, which focused on the sacrifices known as the korbanot....
   
6. A founder of the Zealots
   Zealotry
   
   Zealotry was a movement in Tannaim, described by Josephus as one of the "four sects" at this time. The term Zealot, in Hebrew language Kanai , means one who is wikt:zealous on behalf of God....
    along with Judas of Galilee
   Judas of Galilee
   
   Judas of Galilee or Judas of Gamala led a violent resistance to census of Quirinius imposed for Roman Empire tax purposes by Quirinius in Iudaea Province around AD 6....
   

Contemporary people

• Rachel Zadok
  Rachel Zadok
  
  Rachel Zadok is a writer and a 2005 Whitbread Awards. She is a graduate of the Certificate in Novel Writing course, run by the Department of Education and Lifelong Learning at City University, London....
   is a South-African writer
  Writer
  
  A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms....
   currently based in London
  London
  
  London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
  , England.
• Erez Zadok is the current maintainer of the Berkeley Automounter
  Berkeley Automounter
  
  The Berkeley Automounter first appeared in 4.4BSD, and is a computer automounter daemon. The original Berkeley automounter was created by Jan-Simon Pendry in 1989 and was donated to Berkeley....
  
• Haim Yosef Zadok
  Haim Yosef Zadok
  
  Haim Yosef Zadok was an Israeli jurist and politician....
   (1913-2002) was an Israeli
  Israelis
  
  Israelis are citizens of the modern state of Israel regardless of religious heritage or Ethnicity, including most numerously Jews, Muslims, Arab Christians, Arabs, Druze, Circassians, and others....
   jurist and politician.

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