The Pharisees : the sociological background of their faith.
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Jewish Publication Society of America,
1962.
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| Edition: | [3d ed.] |
| Series: | Morris Loeb series.
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Table of Contents:
- V. 1. Palestine and its divisions
- Some typical variations of custom
- The customs of Jericho
- The origin of the Pharisees
- The urbanity of the Pharisees
- The social background of the Pharisaic legislation
- The doctrine of the resurrection and immortality
- The angels
- The simple life
- Providence, determinism, and free will
- The plebeian paradox
- The oral law
- Reverence for man
- The prophetic ideal of human equality
- The origin of the prophetic doctrine of peace
- The doctrine of peace and the prophetic movement.
- V. 2. The ideals of peace and human equality during the exile
- Social and political conflict under the Persian rule
- The struggle against assimilation : Judaism becomes the synagogue
- Hellenists, Hasideans and Pharisees
- The uniqueness of Pharisaism
- The background of the Sadducean views
- The 'Am ha-Arez
- The origin of the Sadducees and Boethusians as sects
- The sociological basis of the controversies within Pharisaism.