pharisaic

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A majority of American Jews today are unaffiliated with the synagogues the Pharisaic rabbis emphasized, and yet 79 percent report feeling "very positive" about being Jewish.

From Slate • Nov. 9, 2012

Promptly, John Hyrcanus switched his favor to the pro-Hellenistic Sadducees and the Pharisaic observances were forbidden.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the Pharisaic Jew righteousness meant simply the keeping of the law.

From St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians A Practical Exposition by Gore, Charles

These two books form the only Apology in Jewish literature for the religious and civil hegemony of the Maccabees from the Pharisaic standpoint.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various

The Pharisaic view of his time is undoubtedly given, that the canon was then complete and sacred.

From The Canon of the Bible by Davidson, Samuel