Jesus Against the Forces of Death
Reading Matthew Thiessen’s Reading of the Gospels’ Reading of Jesus’ War Against Ritual Impurity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19477795 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anders Runesson (0000-0001-6042-0101, Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 33-49 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-8690 • E-ISSN: 1745-5197 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/17455197-bja10004 |
| OpenAlex | W4213445366 |
| Language | EN |
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
Art · Biblical studies · Elite · Epistemology · Judaism · Literature · Political science · Politics · Social force · Theology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |