Scribing the Pharisees
Hyam Maccoby, 9 May 1991
Jewish Law from Jesus to the Mishnah: Five Studies
by E.P. Sanders.
SCM, 404 pp., £35, May 1990,0 334 02455 2 Show More
by E.P. Sanders.
SCM, 404 pp., £35, May 1990,
Paul the Convert: The Apostolate and Apostasy of Saul the Pharisee
by Alan Segal.
Yale, 368 pp., £22.50, June 1990,0 300 04527 1 Show More
by Alan Segal.
Yale, 368 pp., £22.50, June 1990,
“... rabbinic literature, and of its relevance to New Testament studies, to proceed on sensible lines. Alan Segal’s book, Paul the Convert, is also concerned with the Pharisees, but in a very different way. He wishes to show continuity between the religious views of Paul and those of Pharisaism, and so concentrates on evidence of mystical practices and ... ”