Jesus, the Crowds, and Historical Agency: Thoughts on Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict, by James Crossley and Robert J. Myles

Crossley and Myles’s Jesus: A Life in Class Struggle offers an innovative and accessible reading of the movement around Jesus in terms of class struggle. The authors combine a breadth of knowledge about first-century realities, acumen in exegesis of the Gospel texts, and contemporary crowd theory to...

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Main Author: Elliott, Neil 1956- (Author)
Contributors: Crossley, James G. 1973- (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2024
In: Journal for the study of the historical Jesus
Year: 2024, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 72-94
Review of:Jesus (Winchester : Zero Books, 2023) (Elliott, Neil)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Class struggle / Marxism / Jesus Christus / Jesus People / Gospels / Quantity
IxTheo Classification:HC New Testament
HD Early Judaism
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
ZB Sociology
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B Jesus Movement
B Book review
B crowd theory
B Historical Jesus
B Martyrdom
B Marxist interpretation
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Summary:Crossley and Myles’s Jesus: A Life in Class Struggle offers an innovative and accessible reading of the movement around Jesus in terms of class struggle. The authors combine a breadth of knowledge about first-century realities, acumen in exegesis of the Gospel texts, and contemporary crowd theory to reach new conclusions regarding Jesus and his disciples, especially in his last days, and regarding the ‘failure’ of their movement. This review examines their understanding of the ‘Jesus movement’ and its relationship to the Galilean peasantry and their methodology in extrapolating from the Gospels; and proposes a more thorough Marxist theorization of the Gospels’ role in producing the ‘failure’ they describe.
ISSN:1745-5197
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the historical Jesus
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/17455197-bja10029