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Teaching
The emphasis of the teaching of the Pharisees was, for the most part, moral
rather than theological. They themselves got entangled with the legal minutia and
the great mass of theology about the Law. Their main downfall was in not
following the principles that they themselves taught but made the Law a burden with
their oral traditions
The After Life
Free Will
Angelology
Humanity
It was claimed by the Sadducees that these distinctive teachings of the
Pharisees (i.e., resurrection and the after life; angelology and demonology) had been
borrowed from the Persians and Babylonians, and especially the Zoroastrian
religion.