With a sincere desire to make the Law workable within the changing culture of the Greco-Roman world, the Pharisees developed systems of tradition which sought to apply the Law to a variety of ...

The Roman Catholic Church has affirmed the covenantal efficacy of our reading of Scripture from our tradition and through the lens of the rabbis, the Talmud and the Midrash.

Presenting the Pharisees as self-righteous hypocrites concerned more with the law than with people is prejudicial, biblically inaccurate and offensive to many Jews, several scholars said.

Giles Fraser and guests explore how the Pharisees became a byword for hypocrisy.