The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish PeasantHarper Collins, 13 de jul. 2010 - 544 pàgines "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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... means, from Boissevain. Analytically comparative social and cultural anthropology within the Mediterranean construct is precisely what the next step demands. Consider, for example, a specific and indeed fascinating ethnographic case ...
... means of establishing relations with the sedentary population" (1977:159). A very different answer is given in their later sedentary situation of political independence. There are two significant transitions in the new answer of Genesis ...
... mean for those Mediterranean groups and societies for whom they are basic, fundamental, and pivotal values? Julian Pitt-Rivers, speaking from fieldwork in Andalusia in the early fifties, says, "Honour is the value of a person in his own ...
... means of achieving immediate recognition in the village ... [and] considered ... further that his financial success raised him above the confines of the village hierarchy" (178). But neither of those other stratifications is confused by ...
... means of social control—the codes of honor and shame—which were adapted to the intense conflict that external pressures had created within them, and between them" (3). We are dealing, in other words, with a harsh ideology for an equally ...
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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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Truth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be: Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Age J. Richard Middleton,Brian J. Walsh Previsualització limitada - 1995 |