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Jesus in Context: Power, People, and Perfomance
Richard A. Horsley

Jesus in Context: Power, People, and Perfomance

Fortress Press (Sep 01, 2008)
9780800663124
| Physical Copy
256 pages | 160 x 234 mm | English
Dewey 226.06
LC Classification BS2585.52 .H67 2008
LC Control No. 2008017545

Genre

  • Biblical Resources Jesus-BR/JES

Subject

  • Religion

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What difference did empire makefor Jesus and his disciples? Whatdifference did empire make for thebroader social currents of which heand they were a part? What socialroles did Jesus perform, what "littletradition" did he embody against the"great tradition" of Roman culture?What difference does it make for ourunderstanding of Jesus if we attendto new kinds of evidence regardingpopular movements, the dynamicsof oral tradition, and reading history"from below"? Richard A. Horsleyaddresses all these questions andsketches a dramatic new picture ofJessus in light of recent approaches.

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