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To: Ilaine who wrote (30741)	2/21/2004 2:58:36 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793820

Jesus spoke out against the Pharisees and the Scribes, and your argument appears to be that there were no other Jews but Pharisees. Not quite. There were many different schools of thought among the Jews during Second Temple times as you say. You didn't even mention the large numbers of assimilated or partly assimilated Jews known as the "Hellenizers", and conversely, the large numbers of Gentiles who were attracted to Judaism and began hanging around synagogues (the word "synagogue" is Greek for "community center", btw), who were known as "G-d fearers". What I am saying is that the Jewish faction that Christian tradition calls the "Pharisees" (which itself contained multiple schools of thought not recognized by Christian tradition) became the mainstream of Judaism when Judaism had to re-invent itself after the destruction of the Second Temple and the death or scattering of the majority of Judeans. It was the rabbis - the Pharisees - who codified the Oral Law into the Mishneh and the Talmud. So it's not right to say that the Pharisees are something separate from Jews, and insulting Pharisees doesn't touch the Jews.