A History of Judaism - Martin Goodman
6 ‘Jewish Doctrine Takes Three Forms’ Josephus affirmed that ‘Jewish doctrine takes three forms. The follow- ers of the first ha ...
‘jewish doctrine takes three forms’ 111 books of the Bible, through the covenant sealed through Moses on Mount Sinai centuries e ...
112 A History of Judaism world, and conversion to Judaism, when it occurred, was generally on the initiative of the proselyte. W ...
‘jewish doctrine takes three forms’ 113 * preservation through both rabbinic Judaism and Christianity, two reli- gious tradition ...
114 A History of Judaism We have seen that Josephus wrote about the three philosophies of Phar- isees, Sadducees and Essenes in ...
‘jewish doctrine takes three forms’ 115 and laborious exercises’ in order to gain personal experience of Pharisa- ism, Sadducean ...
116 A History of Judaism under the law’. Josephus, by contrast, had much to say about Pharisees as a group, and rather less abou ...
‘jewish doctrine takes three forms’ 117 the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus exclaimed, ‘Woe to you, scribes and Phari- sees, hypocrites ...
118 A History of Judaism weight with the rest of the population of Judaea. We do not know how many Pharisees there were. The bes ...
‘jewish doctrine takes three forms’ 119 For children ought to inherit from their parents, besides their property, ancestral cust ...
120 A History of Judaism liquid poured from a pure vessel into an impure one].” The Pharisees say, “We cry out against you, O yo ...
‘jewish doctrine takes three forms’ 121 procedure in drawing up a bill of divorce and for allowing witnesses to the new moon to ...
122 A History of Judaism Alexander caroused with his mistresses. Later rabbinic reminiscences about the same episode, involving ...
‘jewish doctrine takes three forms’ 123 connection to the name of David’s High Priest Zadok is plausible since we have seen the ...
124 A History of Judaism without his consent. Convinced by these words, Albinus angrily wrote to Ananus threatening to take veng ...
‘jewish doctrine takes three forms’ 125 on whom the sun has set.” ’ Such doctrines might lead to disputes of considerable signif ...
126 A History of Judaism This insistence on human responsibility for everything is reiterated by Josephus elsewhere as a charact ...
‘jewish doctrine takes three forms’ 127 was evidently possible both to adopt and reject at will, since (as we have seen) Josephu ...
128 A History of Judaism reason to believe that their approach to the Bible could not continue long past the Second Temple perio ...
‘jewish doctrine takes three forms’ 129 A younger contemporary of Pliny, the Greek orator Dio Chrysostom, who came from Bithynia ...
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