Jesus and the Pharisees

This facilitates reference, and it makes possible group and seminar discussion of documents which have hitherto been difficult to study in English.

John Bowker (Author)

9780521097321, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 24 November 2008

212 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.2 cm, 0.27 kg

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 uncertainties which surround this apparently well-known but actually little-understood group. He shows that they were far from constituting a static, uniform sect, and that they had an important history of their own. He finally suggests an approach to understanding Jesus' relations with them, which in turn suggests an understanding of Jesus' conception of his own relation to God, and also of his 'trial'.

Preface
Note on transliterations
Introduction
Additional Note
Translations
1. Josephus
2. Mishnah
3. Tosefta
4. Babylonian Talmud
5. Palestinian Talmud
6. Other rabbinic works
7. Megillath Ta'anith
8. Dead Sea Scrolls
9. Apocryphal works
Bibliography
Indexes.

Subject Areas: Biblical studies & exegesis [HRCG]