... claims part of God's own identity as ‘the Son’. When his disciples say they think he is the Messiah, he does not deny it. Jesus' identification with God's sovereignty is regarded as blasphemy by Pharisees and chief priests. At the same time, his reticence about such claims indicates the God-given nature...

...This chapter focuses on traditions about the Perushim (the Pharisees) in the Babylonian Talmud, together with parallel Christian traditions. It discusses commonalities between the New Testament and the Babylonian rabbinic traditions about the Pharisees. More specifically...

... The Ethiopic Version of the Book of Enoch The Book of Enoch or 1 Enoch apocalyptic prophecy Pharisees Gizeh Codex Charles began publishing on the Book of Enoch almost as soon as he settled in Oxford. We have seen that he had come to regard it as fundamental for understanding the religious thought of pre...

... Tosefta Citation citationality Talmud Babylonian Babli Tanḥuma ʾAbot de Rabbi Natan Disciples discipleship Judaean Nero Vespasian Yabneh Yohanan b Zakkai Galilee Hebrew Hebraization Josephus Sepphoris Tiberias Pharisees Barayta Purity Sadducees Scribes scribal practice Hillelites New...

... and its role in Jewish law. This study sheds light on the theology and authority underlying Classical Jewish Law, contributing to a deeper understanding of the Written and Oral Torahs’ interplay in Jewish tradition. authority classical Jewish law interpretation jurisprudence Oral Torah pharisees...

... pursued under his sons, Judah Aristobulus I and Alexander Jannaeus. It examines the rise of sectarian/partisan groups within Judaism, particularly the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes, as well as the roles these groups played in both the stabilization of, and resistance to, continued rule by members...

..., unloved by most Jews, though Jesus' teaching also gained respect among some Pharisees. The earliest Christian community showed internal disagreements about whether Jesus' mission was limited to the Jewish people or extended to Gentiles. Throughout the first century, the question of whether or not Jewish...

... of his prayers; the Pharisees Pollion and Samaias; and some unnamed pharisaic prophets from the time of Herod the Great. For the most part, Josephus’ reports provide only sparse information about the prophetic activities of these individuals, and they are surveyed here largely for the sake...

... for more negative reasons, as when we suspect that texts are not telling us the whole truth. Examples would be what NT texts tell us about the role of women in early Christianity (naturally reflecting patriarchal assumptions) or what they tell us about “the Jews” and “the Pharisees” (clearly influenced...

...The story treated in this chapter, an etiological tale whose purpose is to pinpoint the beginnings of the enmity between the Hasmonean dynasty and the Pharisees, opens a series of legends which outline the gradual downfall of the dynasty. In the Josephan version the story still concerns John...

...The story at the center of this chapter concerns the Pharisees’ return to power with the accession of Janneus’s widow Alexandra (Shelamzion). The chapter demonstrates the close links between this tradition and the story of the rupture between Janneus and the Pharisees (Chapter 3), and suggests...

... then examines, by generation, how Josephus on the one hand, and the rabbis on the other, reworked these embedded stories. The Josephan treatment aimed to reduce the hostility of the early traditions toward the Hasmoneans by imposing a contrasting accusatory framework that blames the Pharisees and justifies...

.... Although dreams and special revelation clearly play a role, Josephus, like Philo (for whom he had a high regard), places Moses and the scriptures at the center of divine guidance. But Judaism was not monolithic, and Josephus describes some of the features distinguishing Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes...

..., and the Pharisees – certainly employed oral traditions in their literary and interpretive work. But they did not appeal to oral tradition as an authoritative source of knowledge. This was reserved for written books regarded as prophetic transmissions from antiquity. The emergence of a coherent ideology of oral...

... one by one; instead he divided them according to varied aspects or viewpoints and then dispersed them throughout the chapter. Thus the actual healing, instead of being a single brief event (as in Mark 8:22-26) is referred to a number of times throughout the chapter. Likewise the Pharisees: instead...

...0 06 01 1994 The first half of Matthew 15 is a good place to begin looking at the workings of the biblical offense since it contains a plethora of offenses. Jesus’s fame as teacher, preacher, and healer has spread sufficiently by this point in Matthew’s narrative that Pharisees and scribes have...

... The Book of Jubilees Genesis Hebrew Texts of Genesis Pharisees Before turning to his work with Jubilees, we should look at some aspects of Charles’s situation in Oxford. While he was researching the Book of Enoch ca. 1890–93, he was working on other projects as well so that in just a few years he...

..., the Sadducees; to a rigorist lay-movement, the Pharisees; to a separatist ascetic communion, the Essenes; and to a tradition of violent resistance, the Zealots. It is argued that Jesus demonstrably belongs to none of these traditions--or, as the historian Josephus calls them, "philosophies." It is because...

...Accounts of Judaism often start from Josephus's description of the three ‘schools of thought’ (haireseis, sometimes misleadingly translated as ‘sects’), or ‘philosophies’, among the Jews, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Essenes. New Testament references to the Pharisees...