Interesting. Is there a website you could point to for a more extensive presentation of this? From a couple of exchanges we have had and some other posts I have read, you seem to have an affinity for the Jewish tradition? Are you a Christian?
No, not particularly... but it isn't a hard premise to discover.
Although priests controlled the rituals of the Temple, the scribes and sages, later called rabbis (Heb.: "my master") dominated the study of the Torah. These sages identified with the Prophets and developed and maintained an oral tradition that they believed had originated at Mount Sinai alongside the Holy Writ. The Pharisees had its origins in this new group of authorities.
Wikipedia: "Pharisee #Roots of Pharisaic Belief" (pp.4)
From a couple of exchanges we have had and some other posts I have read, you seem to have an affinity for the Jewish tradition?
I have an affinity for the Word of God. One cannot dismiss the witness of the Old Covenant and still support the witness of the New... When the two agree, one knows one has it right.
Are you a Christian?
Absolutely. Although others would probably disagree.