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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?
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About the author
Fernando Bermejo-Rubio is associate professor in the Department of Ancient History at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Madrid).
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.
