The Pharisees considered themselves more "orthodox" than other Jewish sects. The 400 years between the prophecy of Malachi and the advent of Christ are frequently described as "silent," but they ...

The Chosen’ season 5 follows Jesus and his disciples’ taxing journey into Jerusalem, which promises to deliver the Messiah to ...

The Pharisees are known to everybody from the New Testament where they enjoy a very negative press. ... "We must destroy the Roman Empire or we must destroy Jews who cooperate with the Roman Empire.

At his general audience on Aug. 11, 2021, Pope Francis delivered a talk titled "Catechesis on the Letter to the Galatians: 4.The Mosaic Law" Among other things, the pope said, "The Law does not ...

There are true Christians among Catholics, but there are also Catholics who are not even Christians at all. Sometimes, even the shepherds of Christ’s Church are themselves lost sheep. In fact ...

Pope Francis already has accepted a request to meet participants in the conference on "Jesus and the Pharisees: An Interdisciplinary Reappraisal," which will be held May 7-9 at the Gregorian ...

We see Roman guards cheerfully slurp oysters in the priests’ faces. (“I enjoy that they’re forbidden,” one says). We see the Pharisees’ derision for King Herod’s hellenization.

New Testament scholars Joseph Sievers and Amy-Jill Levine share a goal: dissect and demolish 2,000 years of Christians’ disparaging portrayals of the Pharisees, the Jewish rabbis of Jesus’s time.

Third Quest scholars, however, question whether Roman authorities really felt deeply threatened by Jesus, who in the Gospels frequently took aim at the hypocrisy of Jewish Pharisees and scribes rather ...