Pharisees

A struggle is currently underway to figure out one of the central groups in the gospel story . . . the Pharisees. Were they "e;hypocrites or heroes"e;? Or as one recent writer put it, maybe they were just "e;good guys with bad press."e; Scholars of Judaism and of the NT have been painstakingly correcting, even rehabilitating, the image of the first-century Pharisees, but this seems not yet to have affected most readers of Scripture. Here at last is a book that lays out for the non-specialist the evidence for the origin and true nature of the Pharisees . . . and challenges them to re-read the gospel stories with real Pharisees in mind rather than caricatures.