Some of the Pharisees were even pro-Jesus. Just as not every American is aligned with a political party, most of the Jewish people in ancient Israel did not identify as Pharisee or anything else.

A May conference at the Pontifical Biblical Institute will urge a reconsideration of prejudices regarding the Pharisees, the ancient Jewish movement that figures often in the New Testament.

I doubt that he will ever use the term “Pharisee” again. Second: A simple look at ancient Jewish sources indicates that the Jews themselves had trouble with certain kinds of Pharisees.

"He uses the word 'Pharisee' without thinking of the ancient Pharisees and without making that connection, which for others -- for Jews -- are very present," he said.

Pope urged by Jews to take care over Pharisees talk References to the ancient Jewish sect, a precursor of rabbinic Judaism criticized by Jesus, were for centuries an expression of Christian anti ...

The language there "exhausted" the impeachment options of the Congress. In advocating this theory, McConnell revealed himself to be a partisan of the ancient Pharisees. The carpenter from Nazareth ...

Ancient Egyptians began writing with ink—made by burning wood or oil and mixing the resulting concoction with water—around 3200 B.C. Typically, scribes used black, carbon-based ink for the ...

The Jesus of 'The Chosen' is so Jewish that his disciples even call him Rabbi — an unusual framing of the Christian messiah.

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.

Some of the Pharisees were even pro-Jesus. Just as not every American is aligned with a political party, most of the Jewish people in ancient Israel did not identify as Pharisee or anything else.