Pharisees

ancient Jewish sect
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Pharisees
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Summary

Pharisees is a Jewish religious movements[1]. Pharisees ranks in the top 8% of jewish religious movements entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,790 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Religion or worldview: Second Temple Judaism[3]
  • Follows: Hasidism[4]
  • Headquarters location: Jerusalem[5]
  • Part of: Judaism[6]
  • Commons category: Pharisees[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Pharisees[8]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[9], Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[10], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[11], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Larousse Encyclopedia online[14], Great Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius[15], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[16], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[17], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18], New International Encyclopedia[19]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://judaism.stackexchange.com/tags/pharisees[20], https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/tags/pharisees[21], https://christianity.stackexchange.com/tags/pharisees[22]

Why It Matters

Pharisees has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] Pharisees is known by 82 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 12w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikidata description → ancient Jewish sect
    Biblissima authority id → Q321741
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q321741, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
  2. 15w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → pharisees
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: pharisees, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289954745|pharisees (#289954745)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix"
  3. 16w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxford classical dictionary id → 4933
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Oxford classical dictionary id: 4933, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107287018|Pharisees (#107287018)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Oxford Classi"
  4. 17w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3BViUm
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/37444|batch #37444]]: Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) (P14541) 2"
  5. 20w ago · XeNivalys · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483 → f/fariseos
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14483: f/fariseos, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1779856745649"
  6. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|11 */ Yso id: 26262, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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