Journal article
Jesus Against the Forces of Death
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 …
Authors
Runesson A
Journal
Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 33–49
Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Publication Date
February 15, 2022
DOI
10.1163/17455197-bja10004
ISSN
1476-8690