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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...

political, administrative, military, religious and educational and the very existence of the city and the spread of cities were caused by the need for these functions and by the people carrying them out.32 Cities dominated the political, cultural and economic life of empires and societies. It is crucial to define city correctly, especially in contrast to huge, contemporary urban centers. A city in antiquity, as an administrative center, could be what we today would call a large village or town, but
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