The Pharisees

Prelude : What's in a name? : interpreting the name "Pharisee" / Craig E. Morrison

Part 1: Historical reconstruction.

In search of the origins of the Pharisees / Vasile Babota

Purity concerns and common Judaism in light of archaeology / Eric M. Meyers

Pharisaic Halakah as emerging from 4QMMT / Vered Noam

Josephus's Pharisees / Steve Mason

Paul, the perfectly righteous Pharisee / Paula Fredriksen

Pharisees and Sadducees together in Matthew / Henry Pattarumadathil

Polemic against the Pharisees in Matthew 23 / Adela Yarbro Collins

Luke-Acts as a source for the history of the Pharisees / Hermut Löhr

Pharisees in the fourth Gospel and one special Pharisee / Harold W. Attridge

The shared image of Pharisaic law in the Gospels and rabbinic tradition / Yair Furstenberg

How close were Jesus and the Pharisees? / Jens Schröter

The Pharisees and the rabbis / Günter Stemberger

Part 2: Reception history.

Pharisees and early Christian heresiology / Matthias Skeb

A statistical approach to Pharisaios and Pharisaikos in the Greek fathers / Luca Angelelli

The forgotten Pharisees / Shaye J.D. Cohen

The Perushim in the understanding of the Medieval Jewish sages / Abraham Skorka

The Pharisees in the theology of Martin Luther and John Calvin / Randall Zachman

The Pharisees in art / Angela La Delfa

A brief, personal history of the Oberammergau Passion Play / Christian Stückl

The Pharisees on film / Adele Reinhartz

The Pharisees in modern scholarship / Susannah Heschel, Deborah Forger

A textbook case : the Pharisees in Catholic religion textbooks / Philip A. Cunningham

Part 3: Looking to the future.

Preaching and teaching the Pharisees / Amy-Jill Levine

What future for the Pharisees? / Massimo Grilli, Joseph Sievers

Appendix : Address of His Holiness Pope Francis to the Pontifical Biblical Institute.