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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, May II, 188 8 — 32
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lie-Examination-of Pharisee Dr. Seltzer Evaluates Common Market Position
Europe's Common Market for the military and related out- negotiate for reciprocal tariff re-
Status Urged
by Prof. Itilvkin should
help the U.S. economy if lays abroad and thereby elimi- ductions with the European
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ATLANTIC CITY — A noted , salted in 142 B.C. in the certain laws in Washington are nating the present unfavorable Economic Community (Common
Market), "we face a loss of a
professor - of Jewish history establishment of the Second changed, Wayne State Univer- balance of payments.
This result, Dr. Seltzer said, portion of our export markets
called upon Jewish and Chris-' Jewish Commonwealth It was sity economics professor Dr.
tian scholars to take a fresh during the period of this Lawrence H. Seltzer, a former can be achieved only if we per- and a corresponding loss of jobs
look at a 200-year span of struggle for national hide- government economist, told the suade the rest of the world to in our export industries."
Seltzer cited Michigan as an
events that took place in the pendence that the Pharisees final Franklin Memorial lecture reduce trade barriers against us.
Holy Land 2,000 years ago, as- carried through their tri- series audience. He said that if "Our best means of persuasion example of where more job loss
President
Kennedy's
proposed
is
to
reduce
our
own
trade
bar-
could
occur.
serting that "this re-examina- umphant revolution."
"They challenged the reli- negotiating powers for reciprocal riers," he said.
tion in the light of modern
However, unless the U.S. can
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scholarly methods will bring gious'authority of the Sadducee tariff reductions are approved,
into focus a religious revolution aristocracy of priests and land- ! Common Market competition
that has remained hidden for owners whose stronghold was ' should stimulate the U.S. econ-
the Temple in Jerusalem," he;
20 centuries."
This theory of a "hidden explained, "succeeding with He said the U.S. needs to in-
years
popular
support in overthrow- , crease its balance of exports
revolution" covering the
165 BCE through 70 CE and ing their supremacy in religious over • commercial imports by
involving the Pharisees as popu- affairs. The best testimony to , about $2 billion a year to pay
lar revolutionary leaders was the place they held among the
presented here by Dr. Ellis people is that they were given um". Millionai res
Rivkin, professor at the Hebrew whole-hearted and enthociastic
It may come as a surprise'
Union College in Cincinnati, at popular support even when the
the opening of a two-day meet- Hosmonean kings, John Hyr- to many, but there are 132,-
ing of the Central Conference canus in 134 B.C. and Alexan-1250,000 people in the U.S. who
der Jannaeus in 95 B.C., tried ' are not millionaires.
of American Rabbis.
Dr. Rivkin told the rabbis to suppress them and their in-I Put another way, there are
that "contemporary Jewish 'novations through exile and 100,000 who can boast of hay-
and Christian scholars have massacre." j ing a million in the sock. If
"The Pharisees revolution- .this seems small, it nonetheless
been in agreement on a
ized Judaism," Dr. Rivkin as- represents progress, for in 1953, i
faulty basis as to who the
serted,
"by emphasizing the the US had only 27,000 mil-
Pharisees were."
authority of the Oral as well lionairesi
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"The consensus of scholarly as the Written Law, and by
opinion," he stated. "is that the creating such new and novel
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Pharisees were an elevated institutions as the synagogue!
elite, separated from the Jewish and a court for the propagation
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masses by virtue of their strin- and elaboration of the Oral
VALUE!
gent observance of the laws of Law. These institutions, the
ritual purity. Scholars in both synagogue especially, served to
Judaism and Christianity are keep Judaism alive following
Pice, t o ,, c; Main
even in agreement on the essen- the destruction of the Temple
tial meaning of the name itself. in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. by the
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Dr. Rivkin stre ss ed that "the
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Dr. Rivkin challenged this Pharisees were the authentic
view of the Pharisees as "not and authoritative legislators of
only inaccurate but false."
Judaism in their time, and were
He told the assembled rabbis so effective in consolidating the
that "scholars have been im- people behind them that Jesus,
peded in ascertaining the real in seeking to promulgate his
character and achievements of own views. ran naturally into
the Pharisees by confusing the conflict with them."
"J e s n s challenged the
Hebrew terms of reference to
Pharisees," Dr. Rivkin point-
them."
He emphasized in this con- ed out, -by asserting that the
principle of the `Son of. Man'
nection that there is no Hebrew
and the prophecy of the
term for Pharisee as such.
'Messiah,' in a time when the
"Scholars have gone astray,"
end of days was thought to be
he explained, "by assuming
at
hand, transcended the
that the Hebrew term Vera-
normal Law. It is this con-
shim,' referring merely to
flict that accounts for the
individuals who chose to fol-
hostile references to the
low more rigorous and ascetic
Pharisees in the Gospels."
practices, is a variant of
"The problem of the true
'Perushim' or Pharisee."
"This confusion in meaning place in history the Pharisees
is easily understandable." Dr. is one of supreme importance
Rivkin pointed out, "because for both Jew and Christian
Hebrew has no capital letters alike," Dr. Rivkin asserted.
which would permit a distinc- "Their importance to Jews is
tion between 'perushim' and in their revolutionary attitude
'Perushim.' or a separatist and to, and treatment of, sacred
Separatists. Indeed, this simul- laws and institutions. Their im-
taneous use of the same word portance to the Christians is in
to equate movements and indi- the conflict of the revolutionary
viduals is universal A man who principles presented by the
is a democrat and one who is a Pharisees on the one hand and
Democrat are not one and the by Jesus on the other.
"The Pharisees have a special
same, nor are republicans and
Republicans the same. The importance for scholars, theo-
Pharisees and their real place logians and historians," Dr. Riv-
in history have been variously kin declared, "for the time has
misunderstood, maligned and come to set straight an histor-
obscured because scholars have ical record that has been ob-
not been severe enough in their scured equally by Jewish
reading and understanding of scholarship and the Christian
....
Gospels."
the ancient texts."
Dr. Rivkin plans a fuller
"Taking thest factors into
consideration." Dr. Rivkin stat- Presentation of his views in a
ed, "scholars and theologians book he is writing to be en-
specializing in Jewish and ; ! titled "The Hidden Revolution,"
Christian history can no longer j he told the rabbis.
hold to the view that the Phari- I
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