From this engrossing portrait of first-century Palestine, Jesus emerges as the catalyst of nonviolent social revolution that anticipates the renewal of Israel. This fascinating analysis opens up a new perspective of the Roman-dominated Jewish Palestine of Jesus' time, viewing it as an "imperial situation" in which individual acts of violence were responses to institutionalized repression and injustice.   Richard A. Horsley reveals the fiercely nationalistic Zealots as largely the fabrication of historians and exposes the erroneous view of Jesus as the sober prophet of nonviolence. In claiming the presence of the kingdom of God, Jesus aimed at catalyzing the renewal of the people of Israel, calling them to loving cooperation amid difficult circumstances of debt and despair and to organized resistance to the violence of an imperial situation.

Jesus and the spiral of violence: Popular Jewish resistance in Roman Palestine

Religion & Spirituality

Richard A. Horsley

Christian Books & Bibles

Fortress Press

Performing the Gospel: Orality, Memory, and Mark

This ground-breaking volume gathers the best new work in Gospels criticism centered on how the Gospels actually came to be: through oral tradition, story performance, and cultural memory. 
Contributors include: 
John Miles Foley Martin Jaffee Jonathan A.Draper Ellen Aitken Holly Hearon Vernon K. Robbins Whitney Shiner Jan Assmann Jens Schroeter Richard A. Horsley.

Performing the Gospel: Orality, Memory And Mark: Essays Dedicated To Werner Kelber

Fortress Pr

Archaeology, History, and Society in Galilee

Politics & Social Sciences

Archaeology

Trinity Press International

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