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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... presuming that an ancient Galilean village is like, say, a modern American one, only much smaller, older, and without electrical utilities or electronic toys. In a recent article on the current state of Mediterranean anthropology, David ...
... presumed rural agricultural Judaism. The latter would have been more characteristic of those living in the mountains of the north [Upper Galilee]" (1975-76:97; see also 1979:698-699). Furthermore, the Nazareth range is the southernmost ...
... presume primarily the vision of an elite, even if only of a quite relative and even contended elite, there are also documentary sources to be considered. Egypt, because its bureaucrats were very busy and its sands were very dry, has ...
... presume that Pesouris is giving in to Tryphon with the same reluctance earlier displayed by Demetrous. A year later in 52 C.E. Tryphon was in more direct contact with Alexandrian authority. His documents contained two copies of the ...
... presume, I think, that Apion started weaving and paying appropriate taxes a few years before he reached the age of poll-tax, as his father Tryphon had done before him. By the middle of the fifties, then, Tryphon's cottage industry may ...
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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 |