Overview :Horsley (classics and religion, U. of Mass.-Boston) studies the basic political and economic relations that prevailed in Roman Palestine, fo... Read More
Overview :How do new kinds of evidence on popular movements, the dynamics of oral tradition, and reading history 'from below' affect our understanding... Read More
Overview :Dealing with a time when Christians were moving towards separation from the movement's Jewish origins, this inaugural volume of A People's H... Read More
Overview :Over the centuries, Paul has been understood as the prototypical convert from Judaism to Christianity. At the time of Paul s conversion, how... Read More
Overview :Interpretation of Paul has long been dominated by Lutheran/Protestant theological concerns. Paul has been treated as primarily concerned wit... Read More
Overview :Current biblical scholarship tends to treat the nativity narratives as having little historical basis and to see in them illustrations of th... Read More
Overview :Through careful analysis of sources, especially Josephus, Horsley explicates the deep divisions between rulers and the ruled, emphasizing th... Read More
Overview :Set against the backdrop of Roman imperial history, The Message and the Kingdom demonstrates how the quest for the kingdom of God by Jesus, ... Read More
Overview :It has become standard in modern interpretation to say that Jesus performed miracles, and even mainline scholarly interpreters classify Jesu... Read More
Overview :In this innovative study, Horsley builds on his earlier works concerning the problematic and misleading categories of "magic" and "miracle" ... Read More
Overview :Building on his earlier studies of Jesus, Galilee, and the social upheavals in Roman Palestine, Horsley focuses his attention on how Jesus' ... Read More
Overview :From this engrossing portrait of first-century Palestine, Jesus emerges as the catalyst of nonviolent social revolution that anticipates the... Read More
Overview :In Jesus and the Politics of Roman Palestine, Richard A. Horsley offers one of the most comprehensive critical analyses of Jesus of Nazareth... Read More
Overview :The five articles and Simon Price's response at the core of this book were originally papers delivered in a session of the Paul and Politics... Read More
Overview :Here is a challenge to New Testament scholars to engage in a fresh analysis of Q. The authors argue that recent American study of Q has been... Read More
Overview :In previous studies, Richard A. Horsley has set Jesus in the context of Jewish prophetic and social banditry movements and has elaborated th... Read More