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 ...

Such statements about the Pharisees are deeply painful to us ... the Jewish people enjoy no better friend in Christendom today than the Roman Catholic Church. Frankly, I am not so much concerned ...

The Pharisees are known to everybody from the New ... "We must destroy the Roman Empire or we must destroy Jews who cooperate with the Roman Empire. We will kill all collaborators, no King but ...

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.

The Pharisees tracks hateful portrayals of Jews ... growing up in a Portuguese Roman Catholic neighborhood in North Dartmouth, Mass. She recalls “friends with crucifixes on the walls and ...

Like the Pharisees, the rabbinic sages also believed ... s crucifixion on the Jewish people as a whole. Ultimately the Roman governor Pontius Pilate delivered the death sentence, and Roman ...

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 ...

Christians need only think about the heated friction between Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots, and the new Jewish Christian movement in the time of Roman occupation. Politically fractious ...

Giles Fraser and guests hear from Jonathan Aitken, notoriously labelled a hypocrite, to explore how the Pharisees became a byword for hypocrisy. Show more The word hypocrite gets used with such ...