The Pharisees (Hardcover)

Table of Contents

Prelude: What’s in a Name?
     1. Interpreting the Name “Pharisee”
          Craig E. Morrison
Part One: Historical Reconstruction
     2. In Search of the Origins of the Pharisees
          Vasile Babota
     3. Purity Concerns and Common Judaism in Light of Archaeology
          Eric M. Meyers
     4. Pharisaic Halakah as Emerging from 4QMMT
          Vered Noam
     5. Josephus’s Pharisees
          Steve Mason
     6. Paul, the Perfectly Righteous Pharisee
          Paula Fredriksen
     7. Pharisees and Sadducees Together in Matthew
          Henry Pattarumadathil
     8. Polemic against the Pharisees in Matthew 23
          Adela Yarbro Collins
     9. Luke/Acts as a Source for the History of the Pharisees
          Hermut LÖhr
     10. Pharisees in the Fourth Gospel and One Special Pharisee
          Harold W. Attridge
     11. The Shared Image of Pharisaic Law between the Gospels and Rabbinic Tradition
          Yair Furstenberg
     12. How Close Were Jesus and the Pharisees?
          Jens SchrÖter
     13. The Pharisees and the Rabbis: How Much Continuity?
          GÜnter Stemberger
Part Two: Reception History
     14. “Pharisees” and Early Christian Heresiology
          Matthias Skeb
     15. A Statistical Approach to Pharisaios and Pharisaikos in the Greek Fathers
          Luca Angelelli
     16. The Forgotten Pharisees
          Shaye J. D. Cohen
     17. The Perushim in the Understanding of the Medieval Jewish Sages
          Abraham Skorka
     18. The Pharisees in the Theology of Martin Luther and John Calvin
          Randall Zachman
     19. The Pharisees in Art
          Angela La Delfa
     20. A Brief, Personal History of the Oberammergau Passion Play
          Christian StÜckl
     21. The Pharisees on Film
          Adele Reinhartz
     22. The Pharisees in Modern Scholarship
          Susannah Heschel and Deborah Forger
     23. A Textbook Case—the Pharisees in Catholic Religion Textbooks
          Philip A. Cunningham
Part Three: Looking To the Future
     24. Preaching and Teaching the Pharisees
          Amy-Jill Levine
     25. What Future for the Pharisees?
          Massimo Grilli and Joseph Sievers
Appendix: Address of His Holiness Pope Francis to the Pontifical Biblical Institute