Jesus and the chaos of history : redirecting the life of the historical Jesus / James Crossley
- Author
- Crossley, James G.
- Published
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
Access Online
- Oxford scholarship online: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Series
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Does Jesus Plus Paul Equal Marx Plus Lenin? Redirecting the Historical Jesus -- 2.Criteria, Historicity, and the Earliest Palestinian Tradition -- 3.The Dictatorship of God? Kingdom and Christology -- 4.`Sinners', Law, and Purity -- 5.Camping with Jesus? Gender, Revolution, and Early Palestinian Tradition -- An Irrelevant Conclusion.
- Summary
- James Crossley looks at the way the earliest traditions about Jesus interacted with a context of social upheaval and the ways in which the historical chaos of the early first century led to a range of ideas which were taken up, modified, ignored, and reinterpreted in the movement that followed.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780191785733 (ebook)
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references.
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