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Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 160
Fresh Thoughts For Sunday - Fresh Thoughts For Sunday Issue 160
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
A selection of commentary, reflection and prayer ideas from various Christian authors and the full bible texts from the NRSV for this week's lectionary. NOW INCLUDING SERIALISED BOOKS FROM SPCK AND CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BRF. Check below for details. Subscribe to Fresh Thoughts For S…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 33 The Pharisees
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 33 The Pharisees
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Pharisees It is of course impossible to offer here a full history of the Pharisees. Others have laboured, and I have entered into their labour. My purpose here is to plot the main agenda of the Pharisaic movement in the last hundred years or so before the destruction of the T…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 35 The arrival of Roman rule in 63 bc
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 35 The arrival of Roman rule in 63 bc
by SPCK - N T Wright
The arrival of Roman rule in 63 bc and the rise of Herod in the late 40s and early 30s, curtailed the possibilities of the Pharisees exerting actual power either in any official capacity or through exerting influence on those with de jure power…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 37 The Essenes: Spotlight on a Sect
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 37 The Essenes: Spotlight on a Sect
by SPCK - N T Wright
The Essenes: Spotlight on a Sect Scholars will, no doubt, continue to debate whether or not the Pharisees were a ‘sect’. There can be no such debate about the group that lived at Qumran, by the north-west shore of the Dead Sea…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 36 The period from ad 70 to 135