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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jacob Neusner; Bruce Chilton |
| ISBN: | 9781932792720 1932792724 |
| OCLC Number: | 79860553 |
| Description: | x, 512 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents: | First-century accounts. Josephus's Pharisees: the Narratives / Steve Mason -- Josephus's Pharisees: the Philosophy / Steve Mason -- Matthew's and Mark's Pharisees / Martin Pickup -- Luke's Pharisees / Amy-Jill Levine -- John's Pharisees / Raimo Hakola, Adele Reinhartz -- Paul and the Pharisees / Bruce Chilton -- Paul and Gamaliel / Bruce Chilton, Jacob Neusner -- The Pharisees and the Dead Sea Scrolls / James C. VanderKam -- Archaeology and the Pharisees / James F. Strange -- The Pharisees in rabbinic Judaism. The Pharisees and the Sadducees in the earliest rabbinic documents / Jack N. Lightstone -- The rabbinic traditions about the Pharisees before 70 CE: an overview / Jacob Neusner -- The Pharisaic agenda: laws attributed in the Mishnah and the Tosefta to pre-70 Pharisees / Jacob Neusner -- The pre-70 Pharisees after 70 and after 140 / Jacob Neusner -- The Pharisees in modern theology. The German theological tradition / Susannah Heschel -- The Anglo-American theological tradition to 1970 / Jacob Neusner -- The debate with E. P. Saunders since 1970 / Jacob Neusner -- Conclusion. What do we really know about the Pharisees, and how do we know it? / William Scott Green. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Jacob Neusner and Bruce D. Chilton. |
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Whether as parents, foils, or both, the Pharisees have always been a focus of interest for anyone interested in the genesis of Christianity or of rabbinic Judaism. This volume allows serious readers an opportunity to learn the sources, to follow the debates, and so to understand and assess a revolution in historical and theological scholarship. Daniel R. Schwartz, Professor of Ancient Jewish History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem This is an important book in so many ways. It demonstrates eloquently that "what we can't show, we don't know"-that much of what we assert about Pharisees is simply not supported by the evidence. But it also reminds us that "objective" description is not a matter of either choosing or amalgamating sources, but of realizing that how the Pharisees were perceived and presented is indeed also some part of who they were. We also see how interpretation reveals the interpreter as well as the text: in these assured and well-informed analyses, we also discern the moral and intellectual character of the scholar. Not least, we are confronted with those other Pharisees-of Jewish and Christian mythology and contemporary critical controversy, who long outlived their historical counterparts but who still haunt and fascinate us. Philip Davies, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield Read more...
