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Pharisees, Scribes and Sadducees in Palestinian Society: A Sociological Approach is unavailable, but you can change that!

Widely praised in its original edition and now part of the Biblical Resource Series, this volume offers a superb discussion of the role of the Pharisees, scribes, and Sadducees in Palestinian Jewish society. Applying a sociological approach to the biblical and literary sources, Anthony Saldarini accurately portrays these three most prominent groups of educated leaders in Jewish society and...

and dependence on the upper classes meant that they were not a middle class, as they are in modern society today. Some members of this group were peasants who had been forced off the land. Jesus was from this class, as was Paul and the fishermen, Peter, Andrew, James and John. Though far from indigent, they did not have power and influence in society.27 8. The unclean class usually did the noxious but necessary tasks such as tanning. Or it engaged in such difficult jobs that its health was soon destroyed,
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