The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish PeasantHarper Collins, 13 հլս, 2010 թ. - 544 էջ "He comes as yet unknown into a hamlet of Lower Galilee. He is watched by the cold, hard eyes of peasants living long enough at a subsistence level to know exactly where the line is drawn between poverty and destitution. He looks like a beggar yet his eyes lack the proper cringe, his voice the proper whine, his walk the proper shuffle. He speaks about the rule of God and they listen as much from curiosity as anything else. They know all about rule and power, about kingdom and empire, but they know it in terms of tax and debt, malnutrition and sickness, agrarian oppression and demonic possession. What, they really want to know, can this kingdom of God do for a lame child, a blind parent, a demented soul screaming its tortured isolation among the graves that mark the edges of the village?" –– from "The Gospel of Jesus," overture to The Historical Jesus The Historical Jesus reveals the true Jesus––who he was, what he did, what he said. It opens with "The Gospel of Jesus," Crossan's studied determination of Jesus' actual words and actions stripped of any subsequent additions and placed in a capsule account of his life story. The Jesus who emerges is a savvy and courageous Jewish Mediterranean peasant, a radical social revolutionary, with a rhapsodic vision of economic, political, and religious egalitarianism and a social program for creating it. The conventional wisdom of critical historical scholarship has long held that too little is known about the historical Jesus to say definitively much more than that he lived and had a tremendous impact on his followers. "There were always historians who said it could not be done because of historical problems," writes Crossan. "There were always theologians who said it should not be done because of theological objections. And there were always scholars who said the former when they meant the latter.' With this ground–breaking work, John Dominic Crossan emphatically sweeps these notions aside. He demonstrates that Jesus is actually one of the best documented figures in ancient history; the challenge is the complexity of the sources. The vivid portrayal of Jesus that emerges from Crossan's unique methodology combines the complementary disciplines of social anthropology, Greco–Roman history, and the literary analysis of specific pronouncements, anecdotes, confessions and interpretations involving Jesus. All three levels cooperate equally and fully in an effective synthesis that provides the most definitive presentation of the historical Jesus yet attained.
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... important book about Jesus in decades." —Marcus Borg, Chair of Historical Jesus Section, Society of Biblical Literature "Crossan's Jesus isn't gentle, meek, or mild. Crossan's Jesus is an illiterate peasant, both healer and social ...
... important center of trade.... Perhaps no major city in Western history has had so little commercial and economic importance as has ancient, medieval, and modern Rome. William I. Davisson and James E. Harper (175) From the time Rome ...
... important implication of Braudel's work, which is not simply that the Mediterranean is ecologically homogeneous, but rather that this unity derives from the consistent juxtaposition of opposites within nations, the close proximity of ...
... important than it is now.... The second factor is that the general hierarchical structure of Mediterranean societies ... importance has had the use of a written language" (Boissevain et al. 86). It seems, then, that we are dealing with a ...
... important institutionalized role in both north and south, as do priests, saints, and holy men ... Dotal marriage [dowry] is practiced in only 4 percent of the world's cultures, and is limited geographically to eastern Eurasia and the ...
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Slave and Patron | 43 |
Poverty and Freedom | 72 |
Embattled Brokerage | 89 |
Visionary and Teacher | 103 |
Peasant and Protester | 124 |
Magician and Prophet | 137 |
Kingdom and Wisdom | 265 |
Magic and Meal | 303 |
Death and Burial | 354 |
Resurrection and Authority | 395 |
Epilogue | 417 |
Appendixes | 427 |
Bibliography | 467 |
Author Index | 487 |
Bandit and Messiah | 168 |
Rebel and Revolutionary | 207 |
PART HI Brokerless Kingdom | 225 |
Complex Index | 506 |
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The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant John Dominic Crossan Հատվածի դիտում - 1991 |