The Pharisees: their history, character, and new testament portrait
Introduction --Part 1:Origin and History of the Pharisees --Josephus and the beginnings of the Pharisees --Josephus and the historical development of the Pharisees --Part 2:Character of the Pharisees --Distinctives in Josephu --Echoes in the DSS and Rabbinic literature --Common identity with other J...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Eugene, Oregon
Cascade Books
[2022]
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
New Testament
/ Pharisees
B Pharisees / History |
| Further subjects: | B
Jews in the New Testament
B Bible. Gospels Criticism, interpretation, etc B Rabbinical literature History and criticism B Pharisees |
| Summary: | Introduction --Part 1:Origin and History of the Pharisees --Josephus and the beginnings of the Pharisees --Josephus and the historical development of the Pharisees --Part 2:Character of the Pharisees --Distinctives in Josephu --Echoes in the DSS and Rabbinic literature --Common identity with other Jews --Part 3:New Testament Portrait: Disagreements with Pharisees --Jesus and the Pharisees: Introductory matters --Never on Saturday: Disagreements over Sabbath rules --Eating with sinners: Dinner with Levi the Toll-Collector --Don't touch that! Eating with unclean hands and other disagreements over purity rules --Who are you? Core disagreements over kingdom, authority, and identity --Political dynamite: Pharisees, politics, and power --Why do you eat so much? Jesus, fasting, and the Pharisees --Part 4:New Testament portrait: Attitudes toward Pharisees --Were the Pharisees legalists? --Woe to you hypocrites --A more positive spin on the Pharisees in Acts and Paul --Taking stock of the Pharisees: Conclusions and suggestions. A struggle is currently underway to figure out one of the central groups in the gospel story . . . the Pharisees. Were they "hypocrites or heroes"? Or as one recent writer put it, maybe they were just "good guys with bad press." Scholars of Judaism and of the NT have been painstakingly correcting, even rehabilitating, the image of the first-century Pharisees, but this seems not yet to have affected most readers of Scripture. Here at last is a book that lays out for the non-specialist the evidence for the origin and true nature of the Pharisees . . . and challenges them to re-read the gospel stories with real Pharisees in mind rather than caricatures |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-205) and index |
| ISBN: | 1666731366 |