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Making sense of the New Testament requires navigating a labyrinth of different cultural, religious, political, and economic groups that existed in first-century Jewish society—as well as in the Roman Empire at large. In this introduction to the major people groups of the New Testament world, William Simmons clarifies New Testament history and teaching. He provides a historical analysis of major...

In the end, however, the course of the church was not to be directed along Pharisaic lines (Acts 15:13–29). The extent to which the Pharisees defined Judaism prior to 70 C.E. is a point of debate among scholars. The very survival of the Pharisees after the destruction of the temple is also open to question, even though the early rabbis claim the Pharisees as their progenitors and purport to preserve their teachings in the Mishnah.2 Since these teachings survive to this day and form an integral part
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