Jesus in Context
Power, People, and Performance
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Jesus in Context: Power, People, and Performance
What difference did empire make
for Jesus and his disciples? What
difference did empire make for the
broader social currents of which he
and they were a part? What social
roles did Jesus perform, what "little
tradition" did he embody against the
"great tradition" of Roman culture?
What difference does it make for our
understanding of Jesus if we attend
to new kinds of evidence regarding
popular movements, the dynamics
of oral tradition, and reading history
"from below"? Richard A. Horsley
addresses all these questions and
sketches a dramatic new picture of
Jessus in light of recent approaches.
- Publisher Fortress Press
- Format Paperback
- ISBN 9780800663124
- Pages 280
- Dimensions 6 x 9
- Publication Date July 31, 2008
Endorsements
"For some time now, Richard Horsley's
exploration of Jesus and the early traditions
about him has been a performance in
plural registers. He has sought at once to
unify economic history and power politics,
popular memory and elite traditions, oral
performance and oral-derived texts. In Jesus
in Context, he realizes a new synthesis,
infusing new life into the study of Christian
origins and giving us a people's history
deeply rooted in the turmoil of the time
and in the memories of Israel. In a field
where scholarship is all too often narrowly
focused, these chapters represent a refreshing
enlargement of our historical vision."
— Werner Kelber, Rice University
In this stimulating work Richard Horsley
engages the rich tradition of scholarship
questing for the historical Jesus. He finds
notions of strata and criteria — based in print
culture — anachronistic and inadequate.
Instead he utilizes an array of quite different
approaches — oral performance, limited
literacy, social memory, public and hidden
transcripts, great and little traditions, people's
history, imperial context — to understand
Jesus and the early Jesus movement in their
first-century world. An intriguing, insightful,
and innovative study."
— Warren Carter, Brite Divinity School
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