religion of Judea at the time of Jesus

Yes and I am very familiar with Josephus. It was a live talk at a university near me. It had a few rejoinders in Steve Mason and H. Greg Snyder who downed it immediately. It said that Pharisees and their religion was the religion of Judea at the time of Jesus Christ. It said Josephus was incorrect within his interpretation. It mentioned the article "The Religion of the Jews at the Time of Jesus" By Louis Ginzberg. It stated that that era's religion required benevolence and mercy rather than sacrifice. The reason Jesus is represented as opposed to the Pharisees is that when the Gospels were written, Christians and non-Christian Jews were vying for leadership of the Jewish faith. The fact is that they had many identical beliefs, but because non-Christian Jews refused to acknowledge Jesus as Messiah, ties between the two organizations were strained. Although Jesus was similar to the Pharisees, his teachings were more radical. In the first century, Judea was primarily inhabited by two groups: Jews and Romans. The Jews had long lived in the land that God had promised their patriarch, Abraham, and the Romans were the newcomers, the latest conquerors in a long series of challenges to Jewish control of the region. The five Jewish groups exhibit a range of relational views toward the Romans and one another in terms of religious and non-religious observances, lifestyles, and attitudes. Of all the factions, the Herodians were the most politically allied with Rome and culturally akin to Hellenistic and Greco-Roman culture. They were rich and powerful. They were just mildly religious. King Herod the Great installed mikvehs in all of his palaces, yet he was a violent and terrible man. I thought it was sort of crazy. I am not sure. It said to read Josephus and the Politics of Historiography Apologetic and Impression Management in the Bellum Judaicum, Josephus, the Historian and His Society, The Laughing Jesus Religious Lies and Gnostic Wisdom and A Jew Among Romans The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus

Has there been any books on this topic?

I own The Pharisees by Amy-Jill Levine; Joseph Sievers. Where does this work sit on the spectrum?