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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...

those in power.13 This view of the Pharisees is borne out by the gospels according to which the Pharisees were recognized leaders and competed with Jesus and his followers and others for influence among the people. The Pharisees’ beliefs and behavior as Jews were different enough from those of Jesus and the early Christians, as well as other Jewish groups, to provoke disputes and factional competition and conflict. Their appearance in the gospels indicates that they were established and influential
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