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The Political Aims of Jesus

by Douglas E. Oakman (Author)

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Release Date: Wednesday, August 1, 2012

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Soundings in the Religion of Jesus: Perspectives and Methods in Jewish and Christian Scholarship

by Bruce Chilton (Editor); Anthony Le Donne (Editor); Jacob Neusner (Editor)

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Release Date: Sunday, July 1, 2012

This item is part of Soundings Series: Charting the Currents of Contemporary Scholarship

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Encounters with Jesus: The Man in His Place and Time

by Adriana Destro (Author); Mauro Pesce (Author)

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Release Date: Tuesday, November 1, 2011

What was there in Jesus' person, behavior, and words that prompted not only much enthusiasm but also much hostility? This compelling portrait of the man Jesus... read more

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The Shadow of the Galilean: The Quest of the Historical Jesus in Narrative Form

by Gerd Theissen (Author)

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Release Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2007

First published in 1987 by Fortress Press, this 20th anniversary edition of this classic bestseller includes a new Afterword from the author. Here, in... read more

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The People's Jesus: Trajectories in Early Christianity

by Robin Scroggs (Author); Marshall D. Johnson (Editor); Alexandra R. Brown (Author of the Foreword)

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Release Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Seeking the patterns of thought that shaped early beliefs about Jesus as the Christ, the late Robin Scroggs explores the social settings that sparked the... read more

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Honor Among Christians: The Cultural Key to the Messianic Secret

by David F. Watson (Author)

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Release Date: Friday, October 1, 2010

Readers have long puzzled over peculiar aspects of the Gospel of Mark: Jesus' attempts to conceal his deeds and his identity. William Wrede called these and... read more

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Crucifixion: In the Ancient World and the Folly of the Message of the Cross

by Martin Hengel (Author); John Bowden (Translator)

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Release Date: Thursday, September 1, 1977

In a comprehensive and detailed survey on its remarkably widespread employment in the Roman empire, Dr. Hengel examines the way in which "the most vile death... read more

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The Parables of Jesus

by Luise Schottroff (Author); Linda M. Maloney (Translator)

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Release Date: Thursday, December 15, 2005

In this startling work, Luise Schottroff proposes an alternative reading of Jesus' parables. Her work decries the traditional allegorizing of Jesus' stories,... read more

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Jesus the Jew: A Historian's Reading of the Gospels

by Geza Vermes (Author)

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Release Date: Wednesday, April 1, 1981

This now classic book is a significant corrective to several recent developments in the study of the historical Jesus. In contrast to depictions of Jesus as... read more

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Jesus and the Powers: Conflict, Covenant, and the Hope of the Poor

by Richard A. Horsley (Author)

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Release Date: Friday, October 1, 2010

Refusing a false dichotomy between "politics" and "religion" in Jesus' world (and our own), Jesus and the Powers rediscovers Jesus' response to the imperial... read more

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