Maccoby’s argument — and it’s a strong one — is that the later you go in the editing of the Gospels the more editing has been added to claim a dispute between Jesus and the Pharisees that did not exist. This tendentious Pauline point of view — backed up by Paul’s spurious claims to have once been a Pharisee himself — is the origin of modern Christian anti-semitism and a subversion of the Jerusalem Church, which practiced in harmony with the tolerant and deliberative Pharisee scholars
Here’s the PDF of this book https://ia801606.us.archive.org/4/items/B-001-001-718/B-001-001-718.pdf
@kate adding this to my list