Jesus And The Peasants
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Jesus And The Peasants
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Author : Douglas E. Oakman
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Jesus And The Peasants written by Douglas E. Oakman and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Religion categories.
While Some of the Chapters focus on systemic issues, others probe the depths of individual Gospel passages. The author's keen eye for textual detail, archaeological data, comparative materials, and systemic overviews make this volume a joy for anyone interested in understanding Jesus in his own context. The volume is organized into three interrelated parts: 1) political economy and the peasant values of Jesus, 2) the Jesus traditions within peasant realities, and 3) the peasant aims of Jesus. "Anyone who has ever wondered why the Lord's Prayer asks for the gift of bread and the forgiveness of debts has got to read this book. Anyone who has never wondered has even more cause to read this book. Anyone curious about the real value of a denarius or Jesus's take on the morality of money or how many calories were necessary to keep from starving or how Jesus advised to resist an economic system geared for devouring widows' houses---anyone, in short, eager to learn of the day-to-day realities of first-century Palestine as the matrix for Jesus's message can't get and read this book soon enough. "Behind the rich information on the peasant world of Jesus and his appeal to first century peasants is a constant hermeneutical question humming in the background: what does this mean for us today? What are those `general human concerns' that suggest some link or bridge between ancient Israelite farmers and urban yuppies? How might a `realist' stance of reading find in the biblical experience and its symbols voices that speak about `the essentially human'? "The information that Oakman provides in these essays is essential for understanding the world of Jesus and his peasant perspective. The moves Oakman suggests for bridging the gap from past to present are essential for keeping a reading of the Bible from becoming an exercise in canonical archaeology or an illusion that the Bible is hot off the divine press."---John H. Elliott, University of San Francisco, Emeritus author of Conflict, Community, and Honor
The Historical Jesus
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Author : John Dominic Crossan
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2010-07-13
The Historical Jesus written by John Dominic Crossan and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-13 with Religion categories.
"He comes as yet unknown into a hamlet of Lower Galilee. He is watched by the cold, hard eyes of peasants living long enough at a subsistence level to know exactly where the line is drawn between poverty and destitution. He looks like a beggar yet his eyes lack the proper cringe, his voice the proper whine, his walk the proper shuffle. He speaks about the rule of God and they listen as much from curiosity as anything else. They know all about rule and power, about kingdom and empire, but they know it in terms of tax and debt, malnutrition and sickness, agrarian oppression and demonic possession. What, they really want to know, can this kingdom of God do for a lame child, a blind parent, a demented soul screaming its tortured isolation among the graves that mark the edges of the village?" –– from "The Gospel of Jesus," overture to The Historical Jesus The Historical Jesus reveals the true Jesus––who he was, what he did, what he said. It opens with "The Gospel of Jesus," Crossan's studied determination of Jesus' actual words and actions stripped of any subsequent additions and placed in a capsule account of his life story. The Jesus who emerges is a savvy and courageous Jewish Mediterranean peasant, a radical social revolutionary, with a rhapsodic vision of economic, political, and religious egalitarianism and a social program for creating it. The conventional wisdom of critical historical scholarship has long held that too little is known about the historical Jesus to say definitively much more than that he lived and had a tremendous impact on his followers. "There were always historians who said it could not be done because of historical problems," writes Crossan. "There were always theologians who said it should not be done because of theological objections. And there were always scholars who said the former when they meant the latter.' With this ground–breaking work, John Dominic Crossan emphatically sweeps these notions aside. He demonstrates that Jesus is actually one of the best documented figures in ancient history; the challenge is the complexity of the sources. The vivid portrayal of Jesus that emerges from Crossan's unique methodology combines the complementary disciplines of social anthropology, Greco–Roman history, and the literary analysis of specific pronouncements, anecdotes, confessions and interpretations involving Jesus. All three levels cooperate equally and fully in an effective synthesis that provides the most definitive presentation of the historical Jesus yet attained.
Jesus And The Middle Peasants
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Author : Sharon Lea Mattila
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Jesus And The Middle Peasants written by Sharon Lea Mattila and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Excavations (Archaeology) categories.
The Cross And The Prodigal
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Author : Kenneth E. Bailey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
The Cross And The Prodigal written by Kenneth E. Bailey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Drama categories.
Includes a one-act play for eight men, 'Two sons have I not'.
The Radical Jesus The Bible And The Great Transformation
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Author : Douglas E. Oakman
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2021-01-25
The Radical Jesus The Bible And The Great Transformation written by Douglas E. Oakman and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-25 with Religion categories.
The Radical Jesus offers a companion to the author’s previous article collection Jesus and the Peasants. Even more than in Jesus and the Peasants, these eleven chapters sharpen the focus on the political-economic meaning of Jesus then and the deeper values embodied in him that perhaps are still pertinent for now. Part One considers his activities and aims within the political economy of first-century Galilee. Part Two offers perspectives on the critical hermeneutical task of linking the values of Jesus and the Bible to a world that has undergone what Karl Polanyi called the Great Transformation. Polanyi argued suasively in his 1944 book that economy in the pre-industrial age was embedded in social relations and served necessary social purposes, while society after the Great Transformation became embedded within market capitalist economy to the detriment of social relations. This book finds in sustained critical dialog with the Radical Jesus another transforming force and a guiding light toward a more humane economy and society that will serve human need rather than selfish greed.
Poet Peasant And Through Peasant Eyes
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Author : Kenneth E. Bailey
language : en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 1983-05-09
Poet Peasant And Through Peasant Eyes written by Kenneth E. Bailey and has been published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-05-09 with Religion categories.
Methodology - Analysis of four parables - Exegesis of Luke.
The Gospel In Art By The Peasants Of Solentiname
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Author : Philip J. Scharper
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The Gospel In Art By The Peasants Of Solentiname written by Philip J. Scharper and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Art categories.
Tales Not Told In The Gospels
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Author : Hugo Lorenz
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2011-05-20
Tales Not Told In The Gospels written by Hugo Lorenz and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-20 with Religion categories.
Jesus preached his gospel of the kingdom of God -only in parables - to multitudes of peasants in Galilee. Those illiterate peasants patiently listened and evidently understood Jesus' parables; but although the Gospels tell us what Jesus said, they do not open the meaning of his parables. So for two millennia the meaning in Jesus' parables and of his gospel of the kingdom of God has remained obscure and uncertain. If illiterate peasants in Gallilee could understand Jesus' parables, why can't we? What did Jesus mean when "he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear"? (Luke 8:8) How can we get "ears to hear"? In these Tales you will discover the key that opens the meaning in Jesus' parables - and his gospel. What if real life events are offered in contrast to the miracles described in the Gospels? Then how could the virgin Mary have a baby? How could Jesus be resurrected? These Tales provide plausible answers created by inference from the text of the Gospels.
The Cross The Prodigal
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Author : Kenneth E. Bailey
language : en
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Release Date : 2010-08-20
The Cross The Prodigal written by Kenneth E. Bailey and has been published by InterVarsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-20 with Religion categories.
Preaching Magazine Year's Best Book for Preachers Where is the cross in the parable of the prodigal son? For centuries, Muslims have called attention to the father's forgiveness in this parable in order to question the need for a Mediator between humanity and God. In The Cross and the Prodigal, Kenneth E. Bailey--New Testament scholar and long-time missionary to the Middle East--undertakes to answer this question. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of both the New Testament and Middle Eastern culture, Bailey presents an interpretation of this parable from a Middle Eastern perspective and, in doing so, powerfully demonstrates its essentially Christian message. Here Bailey highlights the underlying tensions between law and love, servanthood and sonship, honor and forgiveness that grant this story such timeless spiritual and theological power.
Jesus Debt And The Lord S Prayer
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Author : Douglas E Oakman
language : en
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
Release Date : 2015-04-30
Jesus Debt And The Lord S Prayer written by Douglas E Oakman and has been published by James Clarke & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-30 with Religion categories.
Deeply rooted in the story of Jesus of Nazareth is a concern for people mired in debt. Debt was a central control mechanism for the administration of the Roman Empire. Client states such as those of the Herods in Palestine were entrusted with maintenanceof the established order, the Pax Romana, and their patronage entailed legions of the indebted. Debt kept peasants at their plows and contributed to the suffering bodies and tortured minds that Jesus attempted to heal. His parables and central prayer feature the forgiveness of money debts. In the end, his praxis to liberate people from perennial debt led to a Roman cross, but his memory was kept alive at the table around which he communed with tax collectors and debtors alike.