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(n.)A member of an ancient Jewish sect that emphasized strict…
(n.)A hypocritically self-righteous person.
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The word Pharisees (lat. pharisæ|us , - i ) comes from the Hebrew פרושים perushim from פרוש parush , meaning "set apart" . The Pharisees were, depending on the time, a political party, a soc...
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The Pharisees ... The most important of the three were the Pharisees because they are the spiritual fathers of modern Judaism. Their main distinguishing characteristic was a belief in an Oral Law that God gave to Moses at Sinai along with the Torah.
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Who Were The Pharisees? Discover the amazing truth of the Gospel. Eternal life. Christian living. Bible people, places, things. End time prophecy. Many worldwide study links. ... Of the three major religious societies of Judaism at the time of the New Testament (the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Essenes),
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Several articles on the Pharisees. A source of information for deeper understanding of religious subjects. ... The Pharisees were a major Jewish sect from the 2d century BC to the 2d century AD. The seeds of Pharisaism were planted during the Babylonian Captivity (587 - 536 BC), and a clearly defined party emerged during...
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They were called Pharisees, meaning those who separated themselves from the heathen, and from the heathenizing forces and tendencies which constantly invaded the precincts of Judaism (1 Maccabees 1 ... During these persecutions of Antiochus the Pharisees became the most rigid defenders of the Jewish religion and traditions.
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JESUS AND THE PHARISEES; A Jewish Perspective; ... “The names of numerous groups and sects and trends within Judaism are known from this age — Pharisees and Sadducees, high-priestly families and country folk, Samaritans and Dositheans, sophisticated Hellenized Jews of the great cities of the Diaspora,
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But the most important group in Israel was the Pharisees who sat under the teachings of a rabbi named Shammai, who founded his school shortly before Jesus was born. ... This attitude caused Pharisees from the school of Shammai to hate all Gentiles, and left them with little regard even for Jews who didn’t follow them.
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The nature and status of all of the various religious groups which arose after the fall of Judah (eg Pharisees, Sadducees, Boethusians, Essenes, Zealots, Samaritans; there were probably many others) are shrouded in obscurity.
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