Mark 2:16 hOI GRAMMATEIS TWN FARISAIWN

Thomas J. Kraus thomas-juergen.kraus at theologie.uni-regensburg.de
Tue May 18 01:45:27 EDT 1999


Referring to Jonathan´s posting and Jim´s reply (two distinct groups, a 
notion which I hold, too) about the scribes of the Pharisees.
H.-J. Fabry, who has done several papers on specific questions dealing 
with the wider field of Qumran (esp. about "the" law), propagates that the 
*scribes (of the Pharisees)* is a metaphor for the *Essens (of Qumran)* 
(in a lecture delivered at a Cologne symposium). But he can not explain 
why there was a distinction between *scribes* and *scribes of the Essens*. 
And he does not take into account the function of *scribes* in secular 
Palestine or the Graeco-Roman world. Thus, his concept is explicitly 
theoretical and postulated.

Maybe this is of any interest.
Best wishes,

Thomas J. Kraus
Universitaet Regensburg
Kath.-theol. Fakultaet
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D-93053 Regensburg
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