Pharisaism, Its Aim and Its Method

The subject to which in the following pages I shall invite the reader's attention is one which may seem to promise but little of living interest, and still less of religious wor...

In the preceding chapter I sketched the historical development of Pharisaism from its source in the work of Ezra to the time when it had found its literary expression in the Tal...

It is from the New Testament that the ordinary Christian reader gets his ideas about the Pharisees. There is mention in the Gospels of frequent encounters between Jesus and the...

If Christians usually get their ideas about the Pharisees from the Gospels, they learn their general conception of Judaism from the Epistles of Paul. And, when they find that th...

In the second chapter it was pointed out that the development of the religion of Torah, in the centuries from Ezra to the Pharisees and on to the Talmud, took place along two ma...

no son; "and beside me there is no God," I have no brother'" (Shem. R. 51^b). Abahu lived in the third century of our era; and most of the Haggadic expositions of the unity of G...

In this concluding chapter I shall make an attempt to indicate what Pharisaism was on its spiritual side, as the expression of the Pharisee's personal feeling towards God; or, i...

prayed after that manner. Nevertheless, what I have just recited is more true to the real spirit of Pharisaism than the prayer in the Parable. And even to that there is another...

Berachoth 9^b 117 10^b 279 16^b 302 17ª 274 33^b 267 Shabbath 13^b 134 Joma 85^b 152 87^b 301 Succah 20ª 5 Ḥaggigah 15ª 264 Kiddushin 39^b 274 Sotah 22^b 165 n. Gittin 56^b 49 N...

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=Alviella= (=Count Goblet D'=). =Lectures on the Origin and the Growth of the Conception of God, as illustrated by Anthropology and History.= Translated by the Rev. P. H. Wickst...