@geoman I had forgotten. You are correct that Paul refers to being reared in Jerusalem "by the feet of Gamaliel" and "being instructed in the exactness of the paternal law." So in the modern sense at least, Paul was Gamaliel's student, because he was Paul's teacher in the law when Paul was a child growing up in Jerusalem. However, the central point remains -- there is no basis for associating Jesus with the Pharisees (except as their opponent), Gamaliel or Hillel. No other follower of Jesus is named as a Pharisee other than Paul.

This section of your article caught my attention: "A student of one of Hillel's students attacked these rabbis' extremism: "You blind guides!" he said, "You strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!" That student, fed up with the growing halakhic extremism that dominated Israel from the last few years of Hillel's life until the Destruction, did what many other disgruntled Jews did with regard to the rabbis or to the Temple cult – lthe walked away and formed their own version of Judaism or joined one of the many sects that began at that time. His sect, known in history as the Jerusalem Church, grew. An offshoot from it – one the student's brother, who was then the sect's leader, opposed – is Christianity." This is not true, and so makes your central point untenable. Jesus was not a student of Gamaliel, nor was Paul, who merely stated that he was of the party of the Pharisees, which included both the schools of Shammai and Hillel. James not only didn't oppose Christianity; he was the leader of the Christians in Jerusalem that specifically blessed Paul's ministry to the Gentiles. I'm not sure what you motivation is here. I hope that you aren't trying to latch into a distressingly common anti-Christian bigotry among Jews to attack the Orthodox. That would accomplish nothing but to sow contention. It does not persuade.

I personally found the skeptical and unbelieving nature of some of the notes in the "Reader's Companion" included with the KJV Clarion to be both jarring and unwelcome. My recommendation would be that future editions have instead a pronunciation guide since the text is not self-pronouncing and dispense with the dubious "Reader's Companion". I also suggest that there be an NKJV edition of the Clarion. A short, stout, comfortable edition of the NKJV would be very welcome.