From Story to Question: the Implicit Phariasic Worldview

Chapter TWO LIKE BIRDS HOVERING OVERHEAD:
THE FAITHFULNESS OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL
(vi) From Story to Question: the Implicit Pharisaic Worldview

Praxis, symbol and story lead the eye to the implicit questions which, we have argued, can be raised within any worldview. Who are we, where are we, what’s wrong, what’s the solution, and what time is it? In NTPG I gave brief answers intended to apply to the larger unit, the Jewish world as a whole.395 Here we confine ourselves to the Pharisees, and couch our questions and answers in the first person plural, doing our best to approximate to an emic analysis...