PHARISEES
\fˈaɹɪsˌiːz], \fˈaɹɪsˌiːz], \f_ˈa_ɹ_ɪ_s_ˌiː_z]\
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[Heb.] A religious party among the Jews, who held that God revealed to Moses an oral law (Masorah), which had been handed down by tradition, to supplement the written Law, and that this oral law declared the continuance of life after death and the resurrection of the dead. See Sadducees.
By Henry Percy Smith
