In Quest of the Historical Pharisees »

A scholarly assessment of what can be known about the first-century Pharisees.
LC Classification: Dead Sea Scrolls Criticism Interpretation, etc.

Preface     vii
First-Century Accounts
Josephus's Pharisees: The Narratives   Steve Mason     3
Josephus's Pharisees: The Philosophy   Steve Mason     41
Matthew's and Mark's Pharisees   Martin Pickup     67
Luke's Pharisees   Amy-Jill Levine     113
John's Pharisees   Raimo Hakola   Adele Reinhartz     131
Paul and the Pharisees   Bruce Chilton     149
Paul and Gamaliel   Bruce Chilton   Jacob Neusner     175
The Pharisees and the Dead Sea Scrolls   James C. VanderKam     225
Archaeology and the Pharisees   James F. Strange     237
The Pharisees in Rabbinic Judaism
The Pharisees and the Sadducees in the Earliest Rabbinic Documents   Jack N. Lightstone     255
The Rabbinic Traditions about the Pharisees before 70 CE: An Overview   Jacob Neusner     297
The Pharisaic Agenda: Laws Attributed in the Mishnah and the Tosefta to Pre-70 Pharisees   Jacob Neusner     313
The Pre-70 Pharisees after 70 and after 140   Jacob Neusner     329
The Pharisees in Modern Theology
The German Theological Tradition   Susannah Heschel     353
TheAnglo-American Theological Tradition to 1970   Jacob Neusner     375
The Debate with E. P. Saunders since 1970   Jacob Neusner     395
Conclusion
What Do We Really Know about the Pharisees, and How Do We Know It?   William Scott Green     409
Journal and Series Abbreviations     425
Notes     429
Bibliography     481
About the Contributors     511