Pharisees: a byword for hypocrisy?
Giles Fraser and guests hear from Jonathan Aitken, notoriously labelled a hypocrite, to explore how the Pharisees became a byword for hypocrisy.
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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- Tue 14 Jan 202515:30BBC Radio 4
- Sun 19 Jan 202506:05BBC Radio 4
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