Raise you hand if you think that the Pharisees were the evil brood of vipers that got Jesus killed. Such an assumption is as understandable as it is unjustified. Jesus levied a considerable amount of criticism towards the Pharisees and since his day and age, they have been Magneto to our Xavier. But, what if our reading of them, embodied within 2000 years of Western anti-Semitism, is fundamentally flawed?