The Political Aims of Jesus

by Douglas E. Oakman

Amid competing portrayals of the cynic Jesus, the peasant Jesus, and the apocalyptic Jesus, the political Jesus remains a marginal figure. Douglas E. Oakman argues that advances in our social-scientific understanding of the political economy of Roman Galilee, as well as advances in the so-called Third Quest for the historical Jesus, warrant a revivaland a critical revisionof H. S. Reimarus's understanding of Jesus as an instigator of revolutionary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800638476
• ISBN13: 9780800638474
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"