Much of what Martin Jaffee wrote--e.g., on L. Ginzberg and C. Rabin--makes good sense. But, since there is very, very little surviving Second Temple Period Pharisee literature in Hebrew, no, IMO, it is not reasonable to say that one cannot recognize a pun on "halakah" until some cache of Pharisee texts--surely not Qumran--turns up. Stephen Goranson goranson@duke.edu