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.
An examination of violence and injustice and of Jesus in the context of Roman occupation. "Horsley's work is ... a stimulating and vigerously argued treatment of the historical Jesus."
— Harold W. Attridge
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
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