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.

Preface PART ONE: FIRST-CENTURY ACCOUNTS 1 Josephus's Pharisees: The Narratives, Steve Mason 2 Josephus's Pharisees: The Philosophy, Steve Mason 3 Matthew's and Mark's Pharisees, Martin Pickup 4 Luke's Pharisees, Amy-Jill Levine 5 John's Pharisees, Raimo Hakola and Adele Reinhartz 6 Paul and the Pharisees, Bruce Chilton 7 Paul and Gamaliel, Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner 8 The Pharisees and the Dead Sea Scrolls, James C. VanderKam 9 Archaeology and the Pharisees, James F. Strange PART TWO: THE PHARISEES IN RABBINIC JUDAISM 10 The Pharisees and the Sadducees in the Earliest Rabbinic Documents, Jack N. Lightstone 11 The Rabbinic Traditions about the Pharisees before 70 CE: An Overview, Jacob Neusner 12 The Pharisaic Agenda: Laws Attributed in the Mishnah and the Tosefta to Pre-70 Pharisees, Jacob Neusner 13 The Pre-70 Pharisees after 70 and after 140, Jacob Neusner PART THREE: THE PHARISEES IN MODERN THEOLOGY 14 The German Theological Tradition, Susannah Heschel 15 The Anglo-American Theological Tradition to 1970, Jacob Neusner 16 The Debate with E. P. Saunders since 1970, Jacob Neusner PART FOUR: CONCLUSION 17 What Do We Really Know about the Pharisees, and How Do We Know It?, William Scott Green Journal and Series Abbreviations Notes Bibliography About the Contributors

"This is an important book in so many ways. It demonstrates eloquently that "what we can't show, we don't know" - that much of what we assert about Pharisees is simply not supported by the evidence." - Philip Davies, Department of Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield