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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
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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
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... Foot Moore and James Parkes. The latest in this line of pro-Phaisee Christian scholars is E.P. Sanders, whose brilliant book Paul and Palestinian Judaism (1977) contained an indictment of the one sidedness and partisanship of the school of anti-Pharisee scholarship and a vindication of Pharisee religion from the charge of being ‘arid and ...

So much for Paris

Brett Christophers: Climate Overshoot, 6 February 2025

Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown 
by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton.
Verso, 401 pp., £25, October 2024, 978 1 80429 398 0
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... that the US cease all co-operation with Saudi Arabia, including weapons sales; even Bernie Sanders agreed. The cut in supply would mean an increase in the price of crude oil – indeed, OPEC spokespeople said this was its purpose – and that would, as Sanders put it, ‘jack up US gas prices’. It was under Biden ...

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