description of Messiah and Messianic times in, 79, 80, 174
Pseudepigraphic Writings, general character and number of, i. 37
Pseudo?Philo, i. 36
Ptolemy I. (Lagi), projects the Museum in Alexandria, i. 24;
rules Samaria, 379
Ptolemy II. (Philadelphus), his love of books, i. 24;
has O.T. translated, 25
Ptolemy III. (Euergetes), i. 25, 27
Ptolemy (Philometor), i. 36
Publicans, classes of, i. 515-517;
character of, 516, 517;
the call and feast of Matthew, 518-520
Purification after childbirth, ceremonial and sacrifices for, i. 195-197
Purifications. Talmudic tractates on, i. 357, 358;
dispute about, between the Baptist's disciples and a Jew, 391;
Christ's woe on Pharisaic hypocrisy, concerning, ii. 413.
See also Washing of hands
Purim, Feast of, how celebrated, i. 229
Puteoli, Jewish settlement in, i. 70
Rabbis, subject of study of, i. 11,
roles of etiquette for, ii. 209, 210;
their authority and place, 381, 407;
manner of ordination of, 382;
Christ's charges against them, 407-409;
their position in both worlds, 408, 410;
their power of binding and loosing, 85, 645
Rabbinic Theology, avoidance of anthropomorphisms in, i. 28, 29, 43;
the allegorical method in, 35, 36;
compared with that of Philo, 42-45;
Jehovah and Elohim in, 45, 46;
Rabbinic views on creation, 50-51;
on the heavenly Academy, 85; ii. 15, 16;
Rabbinic hatred of Gentiles and idolatry, i. 85, 89-92;
essential contrariety of Rabbinism to the teaching of Christ, 84, 145;
views of Israel's receiving the Law, 90, ii. 142-144;
place given to Scripture by Rabbinism, i. 105-108, ii. 17;
the conception of good in, i. 144; ii. 339;
contempt of Rabbinism for Galileans and the ignorant, i. 144, 145, 508;
no doctrine of original sin, 165;
views on death, 166;
the two inclinations in man, 167;
Rabbinic accounts of trials of O.T. heroes, 292;
views of sin and the sinner, 507-511;
Rabbinic teaching about penitence and penitents, 509-513; ii. 245, 246, 253, 258;
fasting, i. 512, 513;
the children of God and of Gehinnom in, 551;
the Rabbinic ordinance of handwashing, ii. 9-15;
decisions as to canonicity of certain books, 12,
the 18 decrees, 13, 14;
Rabbinic views of God's doings in heaven, 15, 16;
the ordinance of vows, 18-21;
the Sabbath laws, 52-62, 153, 154;
signs from heaven to confirm certain Rabbis, 68, 69;
signification of salt in Rabbinism, 121;
teaching as to angels, 122;
views on praying, 137, 138;
prayers of certain Rabbis, 291;
their authority, whence derived, 151;
their views on the sudden appearance of Messiah, 154;
their laws about testimony, 169;
the doctrine of sin before birth, 178, 179;
the spiritual leaders Parnasin, 188, 189;
Rabbinic teaching about nourishment and redemption, 196;
how to inherit eternal life, 235, 236;
separation of Israel according to, 237;
the merits of the fathers, 290;
Rabbinic teaching about forgiveness, 296, 297;
about divorce, 332-335;
the renovation of the world, 343;
Rabbinic teaching about the Resurrection, 397-399, 402, 403;
teaching about the light and heavy commandments, 404, 405, 407;
the abodes of the blessed according to the Rabbis, 513, 514.
See also Mishna, Midrash, Halakkah, Haggadah, Talmud
Redemption of the firstborn, i. 194, 195
Resurrection, Christ's teaching to Martha concerning it, ii. 321, 322;
Sadducean attacks on the doctrine, 397-399;
Jewish and Pharisaic views on it, 398, 399, 402, 403;
Christ's teaching concerning it, 401-403;
the Messiah's part in it, 436;
the Resurrection of Christ: the narrators of it, 621, 622;
the disciples' expectation concerning the event, 623-625;
St. Paul's statements concerning it, 625, 626;
hypotheses concerning it, 626-629;
the women at the sepulchre, 630, 633;
Mary Magdalene there, 631-636;
the guard see the angel, 631, 632;
Peter and John at the sepulchre, 633, 634;
the report of the body having been stolen, 636, 637;
Christ appears to the two who went to Emmaus, 638-642;
appears to Peter, 642;
to the disciples on Easter evening, 642-646;
appears the next Sunday, 646, 647;
is seen by the Lake of Galilee, 647-651;