| Jesus and the Village Scribes Contributor(s): Arnal, William E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0800632605 ISBN-13: 9780800632601 Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing OUR PRICE: $25.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2001 Annotation: Sets the early Jesus movement and Q within the context of the socio-economic crisis in Galilee. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Theology - Christology |
| Dewey: 226.066 |
| LCCN: 2001018183 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.03" W x 9.02" (1.09 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Academic - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume challenges Gerd Theissen's dominant thesis of wandering radicals as the earliest spreaders of the Jesus tradition. Several conclusions emerge: (1) the textual evidence for the wandering radicals hypothesis is not tenable and it must be replaced with one that more closely comports with the evidence: (2) the immediate context of the Jesus movement, and of Q in particular, is the socio-economic crisis in Galilee under the Romans; and (3) the formation of Q is the product of Galilean village scribes in the Jesus movement reacting to the negative developments in Galilee that affected their social standing. Arnal moves decisively beyond earlier Q studies, which focused almost exclusively on literary history without dealing with the social realitites of the first century. |
