Jesus And The Village Scribes

Name: Jesus And The Village Scribes
SKU: 9780800632601
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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 realities of the first century.

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SKU (ISBN): 9780800632601
ISBN10: 0800632605
William Arnal
Binding: Trade Paper
Published: October 2001
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers – 1517 Media

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