RT Article
T1 In Association with the Ancestral Customs: Pharisaic Ancestral Traditions as a Semi-Private Association Code in Matthew 15 and Antiquitates judaicae 13
JF Novum Testamentum
VO 57
IS 4
SP 343
OP 359
A1 Krause, Andrew R.
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/156198843X
AB Scholars have long believed that the “ancestral customs” of the Pharisees mentioned in texts such as Antiquitates judaicae 13.297 and Matt 15:1-9 were proto-rabbinic oral tradition, based on apparently corroborating readings of Rabbinic works. However, in this article, I will show that this terminology should be understood within the context of the codes of Graeco-Roman associations. Such language is consistent with both the use of association terminology elsewhere in Josephus, as well as with the corpus of association-related inscriptions and papyri presently extant. The idea of the Pharisees as a semi-private association is not unique, though this terminology provides further corroboration that the Pharisees were understood as a semi-private, itinerant association by contemporary Jewish writers.
K1 Josephus : Gospel of Matthew : Pharisees : semi-private association : association code
DO 10.1163/15685365-12341502