The quest for the historical pharisee: A review essay on Roland Deines; Die Pharisaer

The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | October 1, 1999| | Copyright

WHY SHOULD WE PAY close attention to Roland Deines's new book on the Pharisees?1

In one of the most refreshing essays on the Pharisees in recent years, Joseph Sievers, with a wry smile, surely, remarks that one "assured result" of the research on the Pharisees in the last three decades is that "we know considerably less about the Pharisees than an earlier generation 'knew.'"2 Sievers asks the deceptively simple question: How many persons around the turn of the era either identified themselves as Pharisees or were identified by others as Pharisees? The surprising result is that no more than a ...

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