The Pharisees and Jesus' Discourse on Divorce

"It's a hellic conversation between Jesus and the Pharisees over the best way to read the Bible," he says. "He sits pretty cavalier with respect to their traditions." The Dead Sea Scrolls have some of the most vitriolic language for other people, John writes. He thinks we need to be careful in using some of that language but see it for what it was in the first century.