Jesus in context
Subtitle: performance, power & people
By: Richard A. Horsley.
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780800663124
Subjects: Bible. -- N.T. -- Mark -- Social scientific criticism; Q hypothesis (Synoptics criticism); Christian sociology -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600
Description: "Historical-critical investigations of the Gospels and of the historical Jesus have always assumed the centrality of the Gospels as written texts. Richard A. Horsley overturns that assumption, showing that the Jesus traditions were formed as popular traditions and transmitted through oral performance, not through the textual work of a scribal elite. In order to understand Jesus and the movement around him, then, we must attend to the dynamics of power, social memory, the interaction of "great" and "little traditions," and the moral economy of peasant society in Roman Judea and Galilee. In these groundbreaking chapters, Horsley provides fresh and accessible sketches of a new approach to history "from below," and offers a dramatic new picture of Jesus in context."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "People's history" and New Testament studies; title: Jesus movements and the renewal of Israel; title: Oral performance and tradition in "Q"; title: Understanding Mark as oral performance; title: Social memory and the Gospel traditions; title: Patterns in the social memory of Jesus and friends; title: Popular memory and cultural patterns in Mark; title: "Hidden transcripts" and the "arts of resistance"; title: Jesus and the arts of resistance; title: Moral economy and renewal movement in Q; title: Conclusion : Jesus and the Gospels in context; title: Appendix : speeches in Q.