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For centuries, Pharisees have been well known but little understood—due at least in part to their outsized role in the Christian imagination arising from select negative stereotypes based in part on the Gospels. Yet historians see Pharisees as respected teachers and forward-thinking innovators who helped make the Jewish tradition more adaptable to changing circumstances and more egalitarian in...

However many of Jesus’s contemporaries were Pharisees, wherever they lived, and whatever the interpretative traditions they kept, for firsthand evidence we are dealing with a sample of one: Paul. Paul is the only self-identified Pharisee of the period from whom some few writings remain. And these writings all address problems arising among his ex-pagan diaspora assemblies—a completely different audience ethnically, and thus religiously, from
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