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Jesus and the Spiral of Violence: Popular Jewish Resistance in Roman Palestine / Edition 1

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ISBN-10:: 0800627105
ISBN-13:: 9780800627102
Pub. Date:: 01/01/1993
Publisher:: 1517 Media

ISBN-10:: 0800627105
ISBN-13:: 9780800627102
Pub. Date:: 01/01/1993
Publisher:: 1517 Media

Jesus and the Spiral of Violence: Popular Jewish Resistance in Roman Palestine / Edition 1

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Overview

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.

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ISBN-13:	9780800627102
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	01/01/1993
Series:	Facets
Edition description:	1st Fortress Press ed
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Richard A. Horsley is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and the Study of Religion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of The Message and the Kingdom (2002 with Neil Asher Siberman), Jesus and the Spiral of Violence (1992), and Jesus and the Empire (2002).

Preface to the Paperback Edition

Introduction

PART ONE: THE IMPERIAL SITUATION AND THE SPIRAL OF VIOLENCE

The Imperial Situation of Palestinian Jewish Society

The Politics of Violence

PART TWO: POPULAR JEWISH NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE

From Rebellion to Tax-Resistance: Protests by Groups of Intellectuals

Popular Mass Protests

Apocalyptic Orientation and Historical Action

PART THREE: JESUS AND NONVIOLENT SOCIAL REVOLUTION

Abandoning the Unhistorical Quest for an Apolitical Jesus

The Kingdom of God and the Renewal of Israel

The Renewal of Local Community, I: Egalitarian Social Relations

The Renewal of Local Community, II: Social-Economic Cooperation and Autonomy

Judgment of the Ruling Institutions

Conclusion: Jesus and Social Revolution

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Notes

Index

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