Learning From Pharisees

In the waning years of the first century, the Pharisaic tradition began its metamorphosis into the Rabbinic tradition. Nineteen centuries later, much of our knowledge about the Pharisees comes from the Gospels, and this once influential Jewish sect has become a symbol for self-righteousness and hypocrisy. To call someone a “Pharisee” is to label that person too pious for his or her own good—to suggest that one is consumed with the speck in another’s eye, while ignoring the plank in one’s own eye.

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