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1517 Media The Political Aims of Jesus by Douglas E. Oakman
Amid competing portrayals of the cynic Jesus the peasant Jesus and the apocalyptic Jesus the political Jesus remains a marginal figure. Douglas E. Oakman argues that advances in our social-scientific understanding of the political economy of Roman Galilee as well as advances in the so-called Third Quest for the historical Jesus warrant a revivaland a critical revisionof H. S. Reimaruss understanding of Jesus as an instigator of revolutionary change.show more