THE ANCIENT PHARISEES BECAME RABBINIC JUDAISM

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The Pharisees (from the Hebrew perushim, from parash, meaning "to separate") were depending on the time, a political party, a social movement, and a school of thought among Jews that flourished during the Second Temple Era (536 BCE – 70 CE). After the destruction of the Second Temple, Pharisaic Judaism came to be known as Rabbinic Judaism and then simply as Judaism. The Pharisees were an ancient sect of Judaism. They existed during the time of rabbis Hillel the Elder and Shammai and during the time of Jesus. They are the direct predecessor to what eventually became known as Rabbinic Judaism.