Mr. Sanders' Pharisees and Mine A Response to E. P. Sanders, Jewish Law from Jesus to the Mishnah*

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1475-3065|44|1|73-96

ISSN: 0036-9306

Source: Scottish Journal of Theology, Vol.44, Iss.1, 1991-02, pp. : 73-96

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Abstract

Despite the risible misnomer of his book of miscellaneous essays, which, claiming to speak of ‘Jewish law to the Mishnah,’ discuss mere anecdotes and episodes in Jewish law in the first century with special reference to the Gospels, Professor Edward P. Sanders’ current account of his views should not be dismissed as the merely random thoughts of one who wanders beyond the boundaries of his field of first-hand knowledge. Holding Sanders to his claim that he knows something about what he calls ‘Jewish law,’ let us take seriously his conception of the Pharisees of the first century. Since, intending to persuade colleagues that his picture of, and apologia for, the Pharisees, not mine, accurately portray how things really were in the first century, Sanders devotes two of his five chapters to that subject, we turn forthwith to the contrasting results contained in his current book.