Pharisees were religious zealots who were very legalistic in nature. They would often expound the Scriptures in the synagogues and pray before people. They appeared very pious and in people’s eyes, it ...

The Pharisees hold a unique place in the Gospels as critics of Jesus and his teachings. Their name means “separation,” and they held themselves apart as models of perfection in the law. They were ...

It is the 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time and today's gospel comes from Matt.23: 1-12 about our Lord Jesus Christ denouncing the Pharisees and Scribes, it is also dubbed a "Warning against hypocrisy"…it ...

Every religion has its demonology. When Malcolm X made this observation to Alex Haley as they collaborated on what was to become his posthumous autobiography, his immediate target was the antisemitic ...

New Testament scholars Joseph Sievers and Amy-Jill Levine share a goal: dissect and demolish 2,000 years of Christians’ disparaging portrayals of the Pharisees, the Jewish rabbis of Jesus’s time. They ...

LITTLE ROCK — As Rabbi Eugene Levy sees it, Christians and Jews owe a debt to the Pharisees. "If it weren't for the Pharisees, there wouldn't have been a Christianity," the rabbi of Temple B'nai ...

What do we mean when we denounce someone as a hypocrite? That is to say – when and how does such a denunciation properly have force? Damon Linker implicitly answers “not often” in his most recent ...

Over the years of writing this column, I’ve been chastised many times for sounding like I believe Christians can vote only for “right-wing conservatives.” “You should be more open-minded,” some have ...