- Φαρισαῖος
- Φαρισαῖος, ου, ὁ (Hebr. הַפְּרוּשִׁים=Aram. פְּרִישַׁיָּא, the latter in Gk. transcription Φαρισαῖοι. The Semitic words mean ‘the separated ones, separatists’. Acc. to ABaumarten [JBL 102, ’83, 411–28], Φ.= ‘specifiers’, the party of accurate and specific observance of the law. On the sect of the Pharisees acc. to Josephus [Ant. 13, 288–98; on his views s. SMason, Flavius Josephus on the Pharisees ’91] and the Mishnah s. Schürer II 381–403, where the pertinent passages are reproduced) Pharisee, though in our lit. it is rarely found in the sing. (Mt 23:26; Lk 7:36b, 37, 39; 11:37f; 18:10f; Ac 5:34; 23:6b; 26:5; Phil 3:5); as a rule in the pl. Pharisees, the organized followers of the experts in interpreting the scriptures (scribes). It was the purpose of the Pharisees to take the pattern of a pious Israelite as established by the scribes, and to put it into practice as nearly as possible. Some became followers of Jesus Christ and others opposed him and his followers. Mentioned w. Sadducees Mt 3:7; 16:1, 6, 11f; Ac 23:6–8. W. Herodians Mk 3:6; 12:13; cp. 8:15. W. scribes Mt 5:20; 12:38; 15:1; 23:2, 13, 15; Mk 2:16 (here οἱ γραμματεῖς τῶν Φ.; cp. Just., D. 51, 2; 102, 5); 7:5; Lk 5:21, 30; 6:7; 11:53; 15:2; J 8:3; Ac 23:9 (here γραμματεῖς τοῦ μέρους τῶν Φ.). W. scribes and elders GPt 8:28. As opponents of Jesus Mt 9:11, 34; 12:2, 14, 24; 15:12; 22:15, 34, 41; Mk 7:1; 8:11, 15; 10:2; 12:13 al. W. chief priests J 7:45; 11:47; 18:3 (UvonWahlde, NTS 42, ’96, 506–22); a Pharisaic high priest Ox 840, 10. Their fasting Mt 9:14; Mk 2:18 (Lk 18:12). Paul a Ph. Ac 23:6b; 26:5 (κατὰ τὴν ἀκριβεστάτην αἵρεσιν τῆς ἡμετέρας θρησκείας ἔζησα Φαρισαῖος); Phil 3:5.—In addition to the lit. s.v. Σαδδουκαῖος that is pertinent here, s. also IElbogen, Die Religionsanschauung der Phar. 1904; Schürer II 404–14; IAbrahams, Studies in Pharisaism and the Gospels I 1917, II 1924; ARobertson, The Pharisees and Jesus 1920; EMeyer II 1921, 282ff; RHerford, The Pharisees 1924 (s. BEaston, Mr. Herford and the Phar.: ATR 7, 1925, 423–37); CMontefiore, The Synoptic Gospels2 1927 II 676a (index s.v. Pharisees); GMoore, Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era I, II 1927; FBurkitt, Jesus and the ‘Pharisees’: JTS 28, 1927, 392–97; DRiddle, Jesus and the Ph. 1928; JoachJeremias, Jerus. zur Zeit Jesu,3 ’62, 279–303; LFinkelstein, The Ph.2 ’40, The Ph., The Sociol. Background of Their Faith, 3’62; ILauterbach, The Ph. and Their Teach.: HUCA 6, 1929, 69–140; OHoltzmann, D. Prophet Mal u. d. Ursprung des Pharisäerbundes: ARW 29, ’31, 1–21; LBaeck, Die Pharisäer ’34; WFoerster, D. Ursprung des Pharisäismus: ZNW 34, ’35, 35–51; TManson, BJRL ’38, 144ff; SZeitlin, The Pharisees and the Gospels ’38; idem, JQR ’61; GAllon, Scripta Hild. VII ’61; AFinkel, The Pharisees and the Teacher of Nazareth ’64; ASalderini, Pharisees, Scribes and Sadducees in Palestinian Society ’88; GStemberger, Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes ’95; on the rhetorical use of ‘vituperatio’ (vilification) in Mt and other ancient wr., s. the bibl. in LThuren, NTS 43, ’97, 458 n. 45; Schürer II 381f (lit.).—EDNT. TW.
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