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| Title: Die Pharisäer in der protestantischen bielwissenschaft des 19. Jahrhundert Type: Generic Year: 1998 Abstract: "Begg, Christopher T. in: OTA 22,3 (1999) 545: This monograph represents an expanded version ofW.'s 1994 Gottingen dissertation (B. Schaller, director). In it W. surveys the Pharisaerbild of leading German Protestant scholars of the period ca. 1750-1920 (i.e., A. G. Wahner, J. S. Semler, A. F. Gfrorer, M. Schneckenburger, H. A. Daniel, E. Reuss, H. Ewald, A. Hausrath, J. Wellhausen, E. Schurer, F. Weber, W. Bousset, M. Weber, A. von Harnack, and E. Troeltsch). Catholic (e.g., I. von Dollinger) and Jewish (e.g., I. M. Jost, A. Geiger, and M. Friedlander) scholars also receive some attention. In his presentation of these scholars' treatments of the Pharisees, W. underscores the variety of interrelated factors operative in those treatments, e.g., overarching conceptions of the nature of Judaism and its relation to Christianity, evaluation of the available source material (OT, NT, apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, Josephus, rabbinic writings), as well as contemporary events (viz., Jewish emancipation) and the given author's stance towards these. Despite differences in detail, the Pharisees emerge in the works of all the Protestant scholars surveyed by W. as negatively-charged symbolic figures, who, as such, embody the antithesis to the (religious) ideals espoused by a particular author. W.'s final segment is an extended synthesis and reflection on the issues raised by his survey, e.g., the function of value judgments in historical writing. The volume comes with a lengthy bibliography, plus three indexes: passages cited; authors, medieval, and modern persons; and topics and ancient figures." |