The Pharisees: Their History, Character, and New Testament Portrait - Hardcover

Yinger, Kent L

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1666723789 ISBN 13: 9781666723786

Publisher: Cascade Books, 2022

Synopsis

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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About the Authors

Kent L. Yinger, retired Professor of New Testament at Portland Seminary (George Fox University), is the author of The New Perspective on Paul: An Introduction (2011) and God and Human Wholeness: Perfection in Biblical and Theological Tradition (2019).

Craig Evans is the Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Acadia Divinity College of Acadia University, in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. A graduate of Claremont McKenna College, he received his MDiv from Western Baptist Seminary in Portland, OR, and his MA and PhD in Biblical Studies from Claremont Graduate University in southern California. A well-known evangelical scholar throughout the world, he is an elected member of the prestigious SNTS, a society dedicated to New Testament studies. After teaching one year at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Evans taught at Trinity Western University in British Columbia for twenty-one years, where he directed the graduate program in Biblical Studies and founded the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute. He was also a Visiting Fellow at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, NJ. Professor Evans is the author and editor of more than sixty books and hundreds of articles and reviews. He also regularly lectures and gives talks at popular conferences and retreats on the historical Jesus, archaeology, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Bible. Along with countless interviews on radio networks across Canada and the US, Evans has been seen on Dateline NBC, CBC, CTV, Day of Discovery, and many documentaries aired on BBC, The Discovery Channel, History Channel, History Television and others.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1666723789
• ISBN 13: 9781666723786
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 244