Table of Contents

Preface to the Fortress Press Edition; 1. The Synoptic Jesus and the Law; 2. Did the Pharisees Have Oral Law?; 3. Did the Pharisees Eat Ordinary Food in Purity?; 4. Purity, Food and Offerings in the Greek-Speaking Diaspora; 5. Jacob Neusner and the Philosophy of the Mishnah.

About the Author

E. P. Sanders was Professor of Religion successively at McMaster, Oxford, and Duke Universities and is a fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has written numerous landmark books.