Jesus Against the Forces of Death: Reading Matthew Thiessen’s Reading of the Gospels’ Reading of Jesus’ War Against Ritual Impurity
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 t...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2022
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Journal for the study of the historical Jesus
Year: 2022, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 33-49 |
| Review of: | Jesus and the forces of death (Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, 2020) (Runesson, Anders)
Jesus and the forces of death (Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, 2021) (Runesson, Anders) Jesus and the forces of death (Grand Rapids : Baker Academic, 2020) (Runesson, Anders) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Jesus Christus
/ Cultic purity
/ Matthew
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5197 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the historical Jesus
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/17455197-bja10004 |