The Pharisees : their history, character, and new testament portrait / Kent L. Yinger ; foreword by Craig A. Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yinger, Kent L., author.

Contributor:

Evans, Craig A. (Craig Alan), 1952- writer of foreword.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pharisees.

Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.

Rabbinical literature.

Jews in the New Testament.

Bible. Gospels--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Gospels.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xx, 224 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Eugene, OR : Cascade Books, [2022]

Summary:

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. --Back Cover.

Contents:

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 Josephus

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-205) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781666723786

1666723789

9781666731361

1666731366

OCLC:

1329420573

Publisher Number:

99991661178