Too close for comfort

As the title suggests, this book offers a study in the nature and defining characteristics of the people described in the New Testament as ‘Pharisees’. The author’s central thesis is that these people, and the important movement to which they belonged, have been caricatured and misunderstood in a most fundamental way, so that the real challenge they present to distorted forms of Christian theology and devotion are invariably overlooked and ignored.

David Smith