anti-pharisaic

Updated: June 8, 2025

But in another passage, where he must be following an Herodian and anti-Pharisaic source, he makes some remarks in quite an opposite spirit, as if the Pharisees were in the wrong, and provoked the king. He says of them: "They were prone to offend princes; they claimed to foresee things, and were suddenly elated to break out into open war."

Norman Bentwich - Josephus