Jesus and the Chaos of History: Redirecting the Life of the Historical Jesus

by James G. Crossley

In Jesus and the Chaos of History, James Crossley looks at the way the earliest traditions about Jesus interacted with a context of social upheaval and the ways in which this historical chaos of the early first century led to a range of ideas which were taken up, modified, ignored, and reinterpreted in the movement that followed. Crossley examines how the earliest Palestinian tradition intersected with social upheaval and historical change and how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199570582
• ISBN13: 9780199570584
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"