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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...

The 1902 Encyclopaedia Biblica, a Christian work, reads: “The meaning of the name Pharisee is perfectly clear.”27 This remark can be compared with the entry in the Encyclopedia Judaica (1971–1982): “The meaning of the word ‘Pharisee’ is uncertain.”28 In general Jewish scholars tend to underscore the uncertainty and complexity of the etymological meaning of the name “Pharisee,” whereas Christian scholars tend to be more certain of its etymological meaning and its
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