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 ...

Paul described his Jewish pedigree this way ... After all, why be a modern-day Pharisee when you can be a forgiven follower of Christ instead? Help keep The Christian Post free for all.

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.

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 ...

This verse challenges the common modern view of Judaism as an exclusively closed practice shaped solely by Jewish theology rather than by historical interactions with non-Jewish populations.

As a scholar of modern Jewish history, antisemitism and Zionism, I suggest that the key to understanding that relationship begins with understanding antisemitism itself. Anti-Jewish animosity is ...

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 ...