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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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Author:   Richard A. Horsley
Publisher:   Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Imprint:   Fortress Press,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9780800627102

ISBN 10:   0800627105
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   01 January 1993
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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 Abbreviation Notes Index

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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).

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