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The Gospel reports about several men crucified under Pilate seem to have a reliable core. Taking seriously into account the collective nature of that execution, this book carries out a bold reconstruction of Jesus of Nazareth's story in the framework of Jewish anti-Roman resistance, thereby making sense of that crucifixion.
List of contents
Introduction: Looking At Golgotha Otherwise
Part I: The Gospel Story as a Historical Problem
Chapter 1: Why A Historian Cannot Trust the Gospel Story: Deconstructing the Common Wisdom
Chapter 2: Ways of Responding to the Textual Problems
Part II: Looking to the Real World: The Historical Context
Chapter 3: Palestine Under Roman and Herodian Rule
Chapter 4: Jewish Resistance Under Roman and Herodian Rule
Part III: Etiology of a Collective Execution
Chapter 5: Unraveling the Gospel Story: Individual Versus Community
Chapter 6: Jesus' Royal-Messianic Claim
Chapter 7: What Jesus and His Group Proclaimed and Did
Part IV: From Gethsemane to Golgotha: Thinking Outside the Box
Chapter 8: Glimpsing the Meaning of the Arrest
Chapter 9: The Golgotha Scene: A Tale Of (At Least) Three Men
Chapter 10: Again On Gethsemane And Golgotha: Towards The Most Likely Historical Reconstruction
Epilogue: How (Not) To Change a Paradigm
Appendix 1. Is Jesus Research Nothing but Hermeneutical Ventriloquism?
Appendix 2. Was Jesus Misunderstood? An Ancient and Modern Fiction
Appendix 3. The Intertwining of "Politics" and "Religion" in the Gospel Story
Appendix 4. Were the Disciples Left Unmolested? The case of James, the Son of Zebedee
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By Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
Summary
The Gospel reports about several men crucified under Pilate seem to have a reliable core. Taking seriously into account the collective nature of that execution, this book carries out a bold reconstruction of Jesus of Nazareth’s story in the framework of Jewish anti-Roman resistance, thereby making sense of that crucifixion.
