https://jesusandthepharisees.org/ Ancient Jewish debates, read with context and care. en https://jesusandthepharisees.org/jesus-and-the-pharisees-in-context/https://jesusandthepharisees.org/jesus-and-the-pharisees-in-context/Jesus–Pharisee disputes in the Gospels are best read as arguments within first-century Judaism over Sabbath observance, purity, authority, meals, and. https://jesusandthepharisees.org/pharisees-and-rabbinic-judaism/https://jesusandthepharisees.org/pharisees-and-rabbinic-judaism/Rabbinic Judaism has substantial Pharisaic ancestry, especially in traditions of legal interpretation, named sages, and forms of practice that did not. https://jesusandthepharisees.org/pharisees-sadducees-essenes-compared/https://jesusandthepharisees.org/pharisees-sadducees-essenes-compared/Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes were distinct Jewish schools or movements in the Second Temple period, described most systematically by Josephus. https://jesusandthepharisees.org/who-were-the-pharisees/https://jesusandthepharisees.org/who-were-the-pharisees/The Pharisees were a Jewish movement or school active in the late Second Temple period, known from Josephus, the New Testament, some later rabbinic.