In contrast to Christianity's enduring obsession with them, Pharisees played a decidedly marginal role within Jewish tradition before the modern era — at least by name. That they were a ...

Noun: Pharisee: a member of an ancient Jewish sect distinguished by strict observance of the traditional and written law and commonly held to have pretensions to superior sanctity. Pharisees would ...

The Pharisees played a significant role in Jewish society and influenced much ... with its capital in Antioch (located in modern-day Turkey), took over Judea. Antiochus IV Epiphanes imposed ...

The Jewish group closest to Jesus were the Pharisees and other than the Jewish ... They were not historians in the modern sense, but men of faith who were preaching in their communities.

Some of the most famous beats of Jesus’ story — overturning the money changers tables in the Temple courtyard, criticizing the Pharisees’ Jewish practices, invalidating religious law — set ...

Moreover, it appears that the general Jewish population was never beholden to them, raising questions about how this minority group could have single-handedly persuaded the crowd to turn on Jesus ...

Moreover, according to all the evidence, the Sadducees who initially condemned Jesus to death were in the minority of the Jewish people. Most people in Jesus’s period supported the Pharisees ...

Prof. Emeritus Paul Mendes-Flohr, a leading University of Chicago scholar of intellectual history in modernity, modern Jewish thought and German-Jewish intellectual life, died Oct. 24 at the age of 83 ...