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| Title: A Note on Josephus, the Pharisees and Ancestral Tradition Secondary Title: JJS Volume: 50 Pages: 17-20 Type: Journal Article Year: 1999 Abstract: García Martínez, Florentino in: JSJ 30.4 (1999), 473-474: "Une analyse des textes de Josèphe qui parlent de la position des pharisiens face aux traditions ancestrales permettrait de mieux comprendre leur vrai role et influence dans la société de l'époque: "Thus Pharisees did have their own distinctive doctrines but what they taught the people more generally was correct behavior in accordance with ancestral customs"".
Skemp, Vincent in: OTA 22.3 (1999), 504: "G. notes that scholars are divided between two extreme views regarding the Pharisees, both of which are erroneous: those who view them as a small pious group uninvolved with wider Judean affairs and those who view them as the main Jewish leadership group. G. argues that a better understanding of the Pharisees' role can be gained by further study of Josephus1 statements about their attitude towards ancestral customs. Scholars assume that unwritten ancestral traditions were transmitted orally and should be identified with the Oral Torah of later Rabbinic texts. Josephus, however, never mentions such oral transmission. Regarding the laws not written down in the Torah, G. thinks it is more likely that Josephus, like Philo (see De Spec. Leg. 4.149-50), had in mind traditional behavior (or customs) rather than traditional teaching. The Pharisees were teachers of conservative behavior: they taught the people correct behavior in accordance with ancestral customs (cf. A.J. 13.296, 297, 408; Mark 7:5)". Keywords: Groups and Religious Movements in Palestinian Judaism |