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Literary Portraits Of The Pharisees In The Gospels Of Mark And Matthew, Michael R. Cosby
Literary Portraits Of The Pharisees In The Gospels Of Mark And Matthew, Michael R. Cosby
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Due to the often inadequate methodology employed by scholars studying the pre-A.D. 70 Pharisees, new approaches are needed for analyzing the primary sources. Careful attention must be given to the literary genres of the four ancient sources of information on the Pharisees: the Psalms of Solomon, the New Testament, the writings of Josephus, and the rabbinic literature. As an example of such sensitivity to the ancient authors’ purposes in writing and to the literary genres they employed in conveying their information, this study uses the Gospels of Mark and Matthew as test cases.
Careful analysis of authorial purpose, as revealed …