The Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, starting with Genesis) contains written commandments that explain the proper way to conduct Temple sacrifices, but the Pharisees believed they ...

Tax collectors were hated in biblical times and were regarded as ... are very righteous and look down on others – that is, the Pharisees. Jews had to pray three times a day and people would ...

The gospel lectionary reading for Lent 2 in this Year C is Luke 13.31–35, and once again the lectionary does us something of ...

Pharisees, on the other hand, were a school of interpretation of Biblical text.... Priests are family groups in Judaism. If you have a friend named Cohen, that means he's a priest. So one is born ...

“The Bible is full of — it talks about this,” he said. “It talks about hypocrites. It talks about Pharisees.” Pence, the former governor of Indiana, responded to Buttigieg’s criticism ...