Related to scribes:Pharisees scribe (skrīb) n. 1.A public clerk or secretary, especially in ancient times. 2.A professional copyist of manuscripts and documents. 3.A writer or journalist. 4.Seescriber. v.scribed,scrib·ing,scribes
Pharisees and scribes are reduced stock villains with caricatured Jewish features. FromThe Daily Beast The Hasmonean monarchs who got themselves disliked by the Pharisees must therefore be villains. FromThe Daily Beast That family soon fell afoul of the leading religious authorities of their day, ...
Related to Pharisees:Sanhedrin,Sadducees,Essenes phar·i·see (făr′ĭ-sē) n. 1.PhariseeA member of an ancient Jewish sect that emphasized strict interpretation and observance of the Mosaic law in both its oral and written form.
PENCIL. An instrument made of plumbago, black lead, red chalk, or other suitable substance, for writing without ink. 2. It has been holden that a will written with a pencil, could riot, on this account, be annulled. 1 Phillim. R. 1; 2 Phillim. 173. ...
scribes and Pharisees, who were zealous in paying tithes of "mint and anise and cummin," while they omitted the weightier matters of the law." "It is used as a spice, both bruised, to mix with bread, and also boiled, in the various messes and stews which compose an Oriental banquet....
The two mainfigurativemosaics upon the ambo depict Jonah and the whale, with the one side showing his being swallowed by the whale, and the other, his being released -- Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him [Jesus], saying: Master, we would see a sign from thee. ...
On the other hand, a person is sanctified by presenting to God offerings that he proscribes ( 1 Sam 16:5 ; Job 1:5 ). In New Testament language, we present ourselves as "living sacrifices" ( Rom 12:1 ). According to the old covenant, sacrifices are usually slain. Yet in the new...
Pharisee, member of a Jewish religious party that flourished in Palestine during the latter part of the Second Temple period. The Pharisees’ insistence on the binding force of oral tradition still remains a basic tenet of Jewish theological thought. Lea
last week with the story of his triumphal entry intoJerusalemon the Sunday of that week, celebrated inChristian liturgyasPalm Sunday. The Synoptic Gospels represent him as spending the week teaching his followers and coming into conflict withscribesandPharisees; because of its focus on Jesus’ int...
2.A professional copyist of manuscripts and documents. 3.A writer or journalist. 4.Seescriber. v.scribed,scrib·ing,scribes v.tr. 1.To mark with a scriber. 2.To write or inscribe. v.intr. To work as a scribe. [Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latinscrība, from Latin,...