The Pharisees of the New Testament are clearly ... Temple worship and held the most political influence with the Roman Empire, which ruled over Palestine. The Sadducees rejected the oral law ...

The tenth and eleventh weekly Torah readings from Exodus, Vayakkel (35:1-38:20) and Pekekudei (38:21-40:38) deal with the construction of the Tabernacle during Moses’s time. Many readers think the ...

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 ...

They were Jews who worked for the Romans, so this made them traitors ... very righteous and look down on others – that is, the Pharisees. Jews had to pray three times a day and people would ...

These religious leaders were self-absorbed sinners who wanted people to live “under law” rather than “under grace” (see Romans 6:14). Sadly, most of the Pharisees knew nothing about the ...

The Pharisees have had a bad reputation for 2,000 years of church history, and the rise of critical study has done little to save them from negative characterizations in church pulpits and popular ...