In Quest of the Historical Pharisees

Preface

PART ONE: FIRST-CENTURY ACCOUNTS

1 Josephus's Pharisees: The Narratives, Steve Mason

2 Josephus's Pharisees: The Philosophy, Steve Mason

3 Matthew's and Mark's Pharisees, Martin Pickup

4 Luke's Pharisees, Amy-Jill Levine

5 John's Pharisees, Raimo Hakola and Adele Reinhartz

6 Paul and the Pharisees, Bruce Chilton

7 Paul and Gamaliel, Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner

8 The Pharisees and the Dead Sea Scrolls, James C. VanderKam

9 Archaeology and the Pharisees, James F. Strange

PART TWO: THE PHARISEES IN RABBINIC JUDAISM

10 The Pharisees and the Sadducees in the Earliest Rabbinic Documents, Jack N. Lightstone

11 The Rabbinic Traditions about the Pharisees before 70 CE: An Overview, Jacob Neusner

12 The Pharisaic Agenda: Laws Attributed in the Mishnah and the Tosefta to Pre-70 Pharisees, Jacob Neusner

13 The Pre-70 Pharisees after 70 and after 140, Jacob Neusner

PART THREE: THE PHARISEES IN MODERN THEOLOGY

14 The German Theological Tradition, Susannah Heschel

15 The Anglo-American Theological Tradition to 1970, Jacob Neusner

16 The Debate with E. P. Saunders since 1970, Jacob Neusner

PART FOUR: CONCLUSION

17 What Do We Really Know about the Pharisees, and How Do We Know It?, William Scott Green

Journal and Series Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

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