BM, I love you.
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All I can say is that you just need to wait for Nate to see this post. You just wait.
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I did see it, but I didn't think it worth responding. But if you insist...
Old Testament - Jews say it was written by God, dictated to Moses. Historians say that it was a bunch of cultural legends collated at about 500BC (ish) into one book.
New Testament - Christians say that it was written by a number of holy men many years after Jesus' death and tells the absolute (gospel?) truth. Historians say it was written by a number of men many years after Jesus' death and tells a series of conflicting and disagreeing accounts of Jesus' life. Essentially (they would say), it represents the religion that they were promoting to the Romans and, as such, suggests that Jews are the bad guys and the Romans are nice and cuddly.
Take from that as you will, but I will point out that a) the Pharisees did not exist when the Old Testament was written and b) the Pharisees had nothing to do with Jesus' death because, as a group, they had no political power at the time. The priests in the temple were Sadducees but they had died out by the time that the gospels were written so (historians would say) the gospel writers took their wrath out on the then Jewish leadership, who were Pharisees.