Author: John Bowker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: pharisees, jesus
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1973
List price: $42.50
ISBN-10: 0521200555
ISBN-13: 9780521200554

A study of the Pharisees, in particular as they appear in the New Testament and in relation to Jesus. The main part of the book brings together the most important Greek and Semitic source material in translation. This facilitates reference, and it makes possible group and seminar discussion of documents which have hitherto been difficult to study in English. As in his book The Targums and Rabbinic Literature Mr Bowker makes available and accessible to students material which tends to be removed from them by language and technicality. In his introduction he explains the many problems and uncert

Author: John Galsworthy
Publisher: Echo Library
Keywords: print, large, pharisees, island
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 2006-06-05
List price: $24.90
ISBN-10: 1847022677
ISBN-13: 9781847022677

This large print title is set in Tieras 16pt font as reccomended by the RNIB.

Author: Steve Mason
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: critical, study, composition, pharisees, josephus, flavius
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2001-12
List price: $87.00
ISBN-10: 0391041541
ISBN-13: 9780391041547

Since the 1980s, scholars have called for a new, critical history of the Pharisees. Required is a careful analysis of each source’s evidence as a prior condition of historical judgements. By analyzing Flavius Josephus’ portrayal of the group, this study clarifies some of the crucial evidence that any hypothesis must explain. Josephus writes about the Pharisees in three of his four extant works, describing their actions under the Hashmoneans, Herod the Great, and during his own tenure as Galilean commander of the revolt against Rome. This study tries to show how his discussions of t