text: The Pharisees perhaps get an undeservedly bad rap; their portrayal in the gospels probably reflects more on contemporary tensions between the Jesus movement and the Pharisees than occurred during Jesus's ministry.
  
  <<Josephus (37–circa 100 C.E.) designates the Pharisees a "sect" and a "philosophy" distinguished by their belief in fate and the resurrection of the dead, their precision in studying the Torah, and their adherence to an extrabiblical "tradition of the fathers.">>
  
  http://www.bibleodyssey.org/people/main-articles/pharisees.aspx
  
  Sounds like the Catholic Church.