In Quest of the Historical Pharisees

Jacob Neusner was Research Professor of Theology and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College.Bruce D. Chilton is Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion, Rector of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, and Executive Director of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College.

• PrefacePART ONE: FIRST-CENTURY ACCOUNTS1 Josephus's Pharisees: The Narratives, Steve Mason2 Josephus's Pharisees: The Philosophy, Steve Mason3 Matthew's and Mark's Pharisees, Martin Pickup4 Luke's Pharisees, Amy-Jill Levine5 John's Pharisees, Raimo Hakola and Adele Reinhartz6 Paul and the Pharisees, Bruce Chilton7 Paul and Gamaliel, Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner8 The Pharisees and the Dead Sea Scrolls, James C. VanderKam9 Archaeology and the Pharisees, James F. StrangePART TWO: THE PHARISEES IN RABBINIC JUDAISM10 The Pharisees and the Sadducees in the Earliest Rabbinic Documents, Jack N. Lightstone11 The Rabbinic Traditions about the Pharisees before 70 CE: An Overview, Jacob Neusner12 The Pharisaic Agenda: Laws Attributed in the Mishnah and the Tosefta to Pre-70 Pharisees, Jacob Neusner13 The Pre-70 Pharisees after 70 and after 140, Jacob NeusnerPART THREE: THE PHARISEES IN MODERN THEOLOGY14 The German Theological Tradition, Susannah Heschel15 The Anglo-American Theological Tradition to 1970, Jacob Neusner16 The Debate with E. P. Saunders since 1970, Jacob NeusnerPART FOUR: CONCLUSION17 What Do We Really Know about the Pharisees, and How Do We Know It?, William Scott GreenJournal and Series AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyAbout the Contributors

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