In Quest of the Historical Pharisees </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Neusner, Jacob</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Editor</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">1:0</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Baylor University Press</publisher> <dateIssued>2007</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>512tr.</extent> <extent>paperback, illustration</extent> <extent>23 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>This work sketches the many portraits of the Pharisees that emerge from ancient sources. Based upon the Gospels, the writings of Paul, Josephus, the Mishnah, the Tosefta, and archeology, the volume profiles the Pharisees and explores the relationship between the Pharisees and the Judaic religious system foreshadowed by the library of Qumran. A great virtue of this study is that no attempt is made to homogenize the distinct pictures or reconstruct a singular account of the Pharisees</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Jacob Neusner (Editor) , Bruce Chilton (Editor)</note> <subject> <topic>Pharisees</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D -- Sources</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Judaism -- History -- To 70 AD</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">296.812</classification> <classification authority="ddc">N495-J15</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9781932792720</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/15116/95.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/15116/95.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2024-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071437.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>