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Jan 14, 2025 27 min

Pharisees: a byword for hypocrisy?

from Beyond Belief Hosted by BBC Radio 4

The word hypocrite gets used with such regularity – and Jesus himself had form using the term. How did the Pharisees became a byword for hypocrisy and is it fair? Was Jesus wrong about the Pharisees? Is the view of the Pharisees changing? To discuss Giles Fraser is joined by Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Testament Studies Emerita at Vanderbilt University and co-author of ‘The Pharisees’, James Alison a Catholic Theologian and Dr Stephen de Wijze, a philosopher and Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at Manchester University. Producer: Alexa Good Assistant Producer: Linda Walker Editor: Tim Pemberton

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