Jesus Against the Forces of Death Journal Articles

abstract

• Abstract Thiessen’s book is a systematic attempt at making obsolete an entire research paradigm, which has portrayed Jesus and the gospels as targeting for eradication the Jewish purity system itself, understood as an oppressive social mechanism with which the elite controlled the masses, rather than these texts describing a war against the impurity that this system defined and was meant to control. This essay engages this thesis.

authors

• Runesson, Anders

status

• published 

publication date

• February 15, 2022

has subject area

• 2103 Historical Studies (FoR)
• 2204 Religion and Religious Studies (FoR)

published in

• Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus  Journal

keywords

• Arts & Humanities
• Gospel of Matthew
• Jesus
• PURITY
• Religion
• Theissen
• impurity
• purity

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1163/17455197-bja10004

start page

• 33

end page

• 49

volume

• 20

issue

• 1