Jesus, Liberation, and the Biblical Jubilee: Images for Ethics and Christology

by Sharon H. Ringe

Sharon H. Ringe, beginning with this Lukan text, addresses the Jubilee images and traditions in the Synoptic Gospels, especially in Jesus' proclamation of the reign of God. She illuminates how the Jubilee traditions served as a source for early Christian ethics and Christology: to confess Jesus as the Christ - herald of the Jubilee, messenger, and enactor of liberation - is to participate in acts of liberation. Ringe concludes that the agenda of liberation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592447139
• ISBN13: 9781592447138
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.2" x 9.0"