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pharisaism

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xi) In my earlier book on Jesus, Revolution in Judaea, I showed how, in the Synoptic Gospels, Jesus speaks and acts as a Pharisee, though the Gospel editors have attempted to conceal this by representing him as opposing Pharisaism.
Thus Yoder seamlessly moves from the notion that pre-mishnaic pharisaism, as represented by Rabbi Yo_anan ben Zakkai was "non-violent" in substance to an assumption that this means that it manifested a "continuing missionary openness.
Caricatures are only effective if they refer to some behavior that is readily observable, so we have to assume that a spectrum of Pharisaism reached this self-congratulatory extreme.
 
 
 
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