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Title: Jesus and the Spiral of Violence: Popular Jewish Resistance in Roman Palestine by Richard A. Horsley ISBN: 0-8006-2710-5 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: December, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent,interesting addition to the debate
Comment: Richard A. Horsley has added his voice to the question asked By Jesus{and thereafter history}:"Who do you say that I am?"He takes a slightly differt tack here,viewing Jesus in terms of the popular historical movements of his time,starting with the obvious fact of domination of a foriegn power,and the resulting lifestyles of an occupied people. After{quite interestingly}disecting the Romans and their slave perpetuated economy, he turns to Jewish non violent resistance, Messianic movements social community{including,a fascinating discussion on the half shekel temple tax},and eventually, a short concluding chapter on Jesus and Social revolution. This is a very well researched,well written study{though Im am not certain that all of the leaps are justified}Another inetesting book to the canon.As for the accusation that this is a Jesus for the secular left,I have found that whatever your political leanings are, one tends to attach them to Jesus. This ,though seems obvious to most, Jesus was poor, his friends and family were poor, most of his assocaites were poor,and almost everyone who initially heard His message were poor. That this sudy ,then would approach Jesus from the side of poor outcasts of that time living a under a brutal occupying force adminstered by viscious sycophants is not surprising.Not definitive, of course, simply another side to the story.
Rating: 2
Summary: Jesus for the secuar Left
Comment: Isn't it funny how "historico-critical" inquiry into traditional religion always winds up supporting a platform of radical egalitarianism, socialism, and "communitarianism"? See especially Jewish Renewal as espoused by Arthur Waskow and Michael Lerner, and Christianity as espoused by the Jesus Seminarians and the Liberation Theologians. And here we have Richard Horsley telling us, in effect, that "the history of early Christianity is the history of class struggles."
How convenient that the "essence" of the historical message of Jesus had to do with a Marxist political agenda. The program of Jesus the Galilean communitarian agitator looks wonderfully like the program of today's democratic socialists.
But how sad that not one of these "Jesus-the-liberator" scholars -- including Horsley -- knows much of anything about economics. We might well have gotten a different book if Jesus's anti-imperial "program" had been responsibly analyzed by someone who actually understands how trade and markets work.
"Jesus and the Spiral of Government Power." Now _there's_ a book I'd be happy to buy.
Unfortunately, it would probably be as anachronistic and as full of special pleading as the works of left-leaning scholars. But it would be a nice break from the Marxist class analysis of "historians" like Horsley.
Rating: 5
Summary: Not just another exersize in historical guesswork
Comment: Highly recomended for the Jew and Gentile alike. Horsely manages tosynthesis some complex and scattered historical themes intoa text that appears factual and complete. No wallowing in emotionalish here folks just straightforward historical reasoning. A must for the cleric the biblical scholar and anyone interested in ancient history.
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Title: Bandits, Prophets, and Messiahs: Popular Movements in the Time of Jesus by Richard A. Horsley, John S. Hanson ISBN: 1563382733 Publisher: Trinity Pr Intl Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Message and the Kingdom: How Jesus and Paul Ignited a Revolution and Transformed the Ancient World by Richard A. Horsley, Neil Asher Silberman ISBN: 0800634675 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder by Richard A. Horsley ISBN: 080063490X Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Jesus Against Christianity: Reclaiming the Missing Jesus by Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer ISBN: 1563383624 Publisher: Trinity Pr Intl Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Parables As Subversive Speech: Jesus As Pedagogue of the Oppressed by William R., II Herzog ISBN: 0664253555 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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