The Pharisees: Their History, Character, and New Testament Portrait
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
A struggle is currently underway to figure out one of the central groups in the gospel story ... the Pharisees. Were they “hypocrites or heroes”? Or as one recent writer put it, maybe they were just “good guys with bad press.” Scholars of Judaism and of the NT have been painstakingly correcting, even rehabilitating, the image of the first-century Pharisees, but this seems not yet to have affected most readers of Scripture. Here at last is a book that lays out for the non-specialist the evidence for the origin and true nature of the Pharisees ... and challenges them to re-read the gospel stories with real Pharisees in mind rather than caricatures.
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- Assesses when we speak truthfully about Pharisees.
- Paints a renewed portrait of the Pharisees.
- Understands the Pharisees of antiquity.
With wit, creativity, and accessibility, Yinger paints a renewed portrait of the Pharisees that provides a much-needed corrective to deeply ingrained common mischaracterizations. Yinger’s expertise as teacher is evident in the design of this volume. I look forward to recommending this exceptional resource to all students of the Bible!
—Jennifer M. Matheny, Nazarene Theological Seminary
Yinger performs an unusual and helpful service to the academy and church in this detailed, well-researched book. . . . If you read this book, you will not think of Pharisees the same way. I am grateful to Dr. Yinger for producing such an accessible and valuable resource. I will recommend it to colleagues far and wide.
—Charles J. Conniry Jr., Western Seminary
Yinger sifts afresh through the literary witnesses to the Pharisees, helping us see them as a bona fide religious movement with comprehensible—and even commendable—goals.... The cumulative result of this careful work is a platform from which to assess when we speak truthfully about Pharisees and discern when we perpetuate defamation—a goal to which all ethically minded people must aspire.
—David A. deSilva, Ashland Theological Seminary
- Title: The Pharisees: Their History, Character, and New Testament Portrait
- Author: Kent L. Yinger
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Pages: 118
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781666731361, 1666731366, 9781666723786, 1666723789, 1666723797, 9781666723793
- Resource ID: LLS:PHRSSTHRTSPRTRT
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-25T00:57:00Z