Miscellaneous Discourses Relating to the Traditions and Usages of the Scribes and Pharisees in Our Saviour Jesus Christ's Time (1718 Wotton), book

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Miscellaneous Discourses relating to the Traditions and Usages of the Scribes and Pharisees in our Saviour Jesus Christ's time (1718) is a book by William Wotton.

Abstract

The first portrait--albeit rough--of Judaism "in the time of Jesus." The Mishnah is the main source.

In Miscellaneous Discourses (1718), William Wotton — a learned Anglican divine and polymath — presented the Pharisees as serious, tradition-bound religious leaders, whose practices and debates can be reconstructed from rabbinic sources. He broke with polemical stereotypes and laid groundwork for the modern historical study of the Pharisees in their Jewish context.

Editions and translations

Published in London, England: Goodwin, <2 vols.> 1718.

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