Comments on: Pharisees http://yeshuaincontext.com/2013/05/pharisees/ The Life and Times of Yeshua (Jesus) the Messiah Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:51:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: yeshuain http://yeshuaincontext.com/2013/05/pharisees/#comment-23572 yeshuain Wed, 04 Sep 2013 17:41:51 +0000 http://yeshuaincontext.com/?p=764#comment-23572 Adam, I really recommend Sanders, Judaism: Practice and Belief and if you add a second book, try Sean Freyne's Galilee: From Alexander the Great to Hadrian. Cohen's Maccabees to Mishnah is good also. And why not throw in Wright, The New Testament and the People of God. If you want to get more specialized about it, follow their footnotes and bibliographical references. Thanks for asking. Adam, I really recommend Sanders, Judaism: Practice and Belief and if you add a second book, try Sean Freyne’s Galilee: From Alexander the Great to Hadrian. Cohen’s Maccabees to Mishnah is good also. And why not throw in Wright, The New Testament and the People of God. If you want to get more specialized about it, follow their footnotes and bibliographical references. Thanks for asking.

]]> By: Adam Haynes http://yeshuaincontext.com/2013/05/pharisees/#comment-23571 Adam Haynes Wed, 04 Sep 2013 17:12:33 +0000 http://yeshuaincontext.com/?p=764#comment-23571 Jacob from Hope Abbey led me to your site. I'm 'jumping on' your offer: "I provide no documentation for the assertions I will make in this summary on the Pharisees. Feel free to ask questions in the comments." Are the two books you referenced above the best platform for pinning down a few of the facts you listed above? Are there any other valuable resources? Jacob from Hope Abbey led me to your site. I’m ‘jumping on’ your offer: “I provide no documentation for the assertions I will make in this summary on the Pharisees. Feel free to ask questions in the comments.”

Are the two books you referenced above the best platform for pinning down a few of the facts you listed above? Are there any other valuable resources?

]]> By: yeshuain http://yeshuaincontext.com/2013/05/pharisees/#comment-21454 yeshuain Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:20:34 +0000 http://yeshuaincontext.com/?p=764#comment-21454 Yerubilee the Band: I have not read Dan Gruber's book, but Akiva's time was very different from the much earlier time of Hillel and Shammai. I think your question confuses time periods and I am not sure how to answer it or what you are even asking. The distance between Hillel and Akiva was a full century and more. In between the Temple was destroyed and that event subtly changed many things. If Gruber makes some sort of bad guy or heretic out of Akiva, I think that would be a very bad historical interpretation. Yerubilee the Band:

I have not read Dan Gruber’s book, but Akiva’s time was very different from the much earlier time of Hillel and Shammai. I think your question confuses time periods and I am not sure how to answer it or what you are even asking. The distance between Hillel and Akiva was a full century and more. In between the Temple was destroyed and that event subtly changed many things. If Gruber makes some sort of bad guy or heretic out of Akiva, I think that would be a very bad historical interpretation.

]]> By: Yerubilee the Band http://yeshuaincontext.com/2013/05/pharisees/#comment-21362 Yerubilee the Band Sat, 01 Jun 2013 12:20:42 +0000 http://yeshuaincontext.com/?p=764#comment-21362 Excellent points about the Pharisees. I'd be curious to know your opinion on Akiva, as I can't recall if he affiliated with Beit Shammai or Beit Hillel or whatever. Clearly, Akiva introduced a radical style of reinterpreting the text, departing from the Pshat meaning of the Scriptures, at least according to Gruber's "Rabbi Akiva's Messiah." Excellent points about the Pharisees. I’d be curious to know your opinion on Akiva, as I can’t recall if he affiliated with Beit Shammai or Beit Hillel or whatever. Clearly, Akiva introduced a radical style of reinterpreting the text, departing from the Pshat meaning of the Scriptures, at least according to Gruber’s “Rabbi Akiva’s Messiah.”

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