Jewish Contemporaries of Jesus: Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (820 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0800626249 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 161 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | German |
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Language Notes Text: English (translation) Original Language: German
First Century Jigsaw Puzzle This is an excellent, restrained and well-balanced study of the three most prominent Jewish religious groups around Jesus' time.The author successfully integrates all the available sources, including: the New Testament, rabbinical sources, Yosef Ben Mattathias, a.k.a. Josephus Flavius, Dead Sea scrolls and apocrypha. This is a daunting task because their perspectives and agendas are incongruent. Throughout, he maintains lucidity and caution in judging how useful they are for the purpose of delineating who's who and what's what in Jewish society in the. Four Stars My interest was Essenes. A little light on material and background but still enjoyable.. Virgil Brown said Good Assessment of Subject and Sources. Stemberger begins his book with a description of the primary sources for the contemporaries of Jesus. These are Flavius Josephus, the New Testament, and Rabbinic statements. The next section of his book compares the theology of the groups. Then comes the histories of the groups. Stemberger concludes with the question of whether rabbinicism is a direct descendent of Phariseeism.Stemberger has written a good assessment of his topic. One might wish that he had included some other group, but it probably was not a Jewish contemporary of Jesus. His fair tre
This book looks carefully at the sources of information for the three most prominent religious groups of first-century Judaism. Mahnke presents a close reexamination of the sources, history and teaching of the three groups.