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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...

of saintliness, Jerusalem was considered a narrower, more circumscribed domain of ‘saintliness’ or ‘separation,’ and that the ‘community’ of Jerusalem was accordingly considered the ‘holy community’ in this narrower sense. This is in accord with the meaning of the term ‘the saints’ as used in the New Testament.”51 Baeck gives the term “Pharisee” a refreshing descriptive backing that has gone relatively unheard among scholars, as most Christians would probably not refer to our saints as “remarkable
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