They are believed to have rejected either the Seleucid appointed high priests, or the Hasmonean high priests, as illegitimate. The Essenes may have emerged as a sect of dissident priests. Around this time the Sadducee party emerged as the party of the priests and allied elites (the name Sadducee may come from Zadok). The rift between the priests and the sages grew during the Hellenistic period, when the Jews faced new political and cultural struggles. The emergence of the Sadducees, Essenes, and Pharisees Religious authority was being wrested away from the priesthood based in the temple in Jerusalem and judaism was being centered more around the synagogues which were led by Rabbis. There were different groups of religious leaders in Israel at the time. oi grammateis kai oi pharisaioi) sit (ikathisan) in moses' chair (kathedras). There is nothing about official interpreters in the original greek. I'm not sure of that interpretation of the verse.
Pharisees were the religious leaders of that time, i think a better header for this topic would have been "what is the difference between a pastor/preacher and a pharisee?" since pastors are now our religious leaders and most of them have that hypocritical attribute of pharisees. Re: What Is The Difference Between A Christian And A Pharisee? by KunleOshob( m): 10:50am On Apr 21, 2009Ģ “The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees are the official interpreters of the law of Moses. What doctrine or belief marked out the pharisees? And when Jesus attacked the pharisees was he attacking the belief system or was he only attacking the way certain pharisees practiced their belief system. And we know that they took the bible literally rather than figuratively. For instance we know that the Sadducees did not believe in life after death in the sense of the resurrection of the body.
Hypocrisy was not the definition of a Pharisee, so what was it that defined the Pharisees? What were their beliefs. I'm sure their doctrines were not Hypocrisy, ie if you want to be a pharisee you must be as hypocritical as possible. What I'm asking is "What are the Doctrines of the Pharisees"?. There are many hypocrites in the world in every faith, ideology or society. However what do we really know about them? Apart from the fact that they were hypocrites. We all know about the pharisee from the gospels in the new testament.