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Zusatztext this thought-provoking volume oVers several significant contributions to the quest for the historical Jesus and is definitely worth reading and pondering Informationen zum Autor James Crossley is Professor of Bible, Culture and Politics at the University of Sheffield. His research focuses on both Christian origins and contemporary receptions of the Bible and how they both related to contexts of historical change. His is author of numerous articles and books, including Jesus in an Age of Neoliberalism: Quests, Scholarship and Ideology (Acumen, 2012). Klappentext This book is an analysis of historical Jesus scholarship in its economic and cultural contexts. Zusammenfassung This book is an analysis of historical Jesus scholarship in its economic and cultural contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Does Jesus Plus Paul Equal Marx Plus Lenin? Re-directing the Historical Jesus 2: Criteria, Historicity, and the Earliest Palestinian Tradition 3: Empire of God, King of Rome: Kingdom and Christology 4: 'Sinners', Law, and Purity 5: Camping with Jesus? Gender, Revolution, and Early Palestinian Tradition An Irrelevant Conclusion
