Kent L. Yinger 
The Pharisees [EPUB ebook] 
Their History, Character, and New Testament Portrait

A struggle is currently underway to figure out one of the central groups in the gospel story . . . the Pharisees. Were they ‘hypocrites or heroes’? Or as one recent writer put it, maybe they were just ‘good guys with bad press.’ 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.

Over de auteur

Craig Evans is the Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Acadia Divinity College of Acadia University, in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. A graduate of Claremont Mc Kenna College, he received his MDiv from Western Baptist Seminary in Portland, OR, and his MA and Ph D in Biblical Studies from Claremont Graduate University in southern California. A well-known evangelical scholar throughout the world, he is an elected member of the prestigious SNTS, a society dedicated to New Testament studies. After teaching one year at Mc Master University in Hamilton, Ontario, Evans taught at Trinity Western University in British Columbia for twenty-one years, where he directed the graduate program in Biblical Studies and founded the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute. He was also a Visiting Fellow at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, NJ. Professor Evans is the author and editor of more than sixty books and hundreds of articles and reviews. He also regularly lectures and gives talks at popular conferences and retreats on the historical Jesus, archaeology, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Bible. Along with countless interviews on radio networks across Canada and the US, Evans has been seen on Dateline NBC, CBC, CTV, Day of Discovery, and many documentaries aired on BBC, The Discovery Channel, History Channel, History Television and others.