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This volume brings together groundbreaking essays that laid the foundations of several of Horsley's later works. The initial aims of these essays were...
Judaism and Christianity both arose in times of empire, with roots in Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. In order to understand these religious ...
The Politics of Plot in Mark's Gospel
Richard Horsley provides a sure guide for first time readers of Mark's Gospel and, at the very same time, induces those more familiar with Mark to tak...
Power, People, & Performance
*Applies new methods to the study of the historical Jesus * Includes illuminating maps...
The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder
A major advance in Jesus studies and a critique of oppression. Horsley focuses his attention on how Jesus' proclamation of the kingdom of God relates ...
Popular Jewish Resistance in Roman Palestine
From this engrossing portrait of first-century Palestine, Jesus emerges as the catalyst of nonviolent social revolution that anticipates the renewal o...
Popular Movements at the Time of Jesus
A brilliant portrait of Jewish culture in the first century rediscovers the common people in the time of Jesus, and contains a fresh evaluation of Jes...
In Jesus and the Politics of Roman Palestine, Richard A. Horsley offers one of the most comprehensive critical analyses of Jesus of Nazareth's mission...
Reclaiming the Bible as a History of Faithful Resistance
The Bible tells the stories of many empires, and many are still considered some of the largest of the ancient and classical world: the Assyrians, the ...
Each stage of Christian church history is reinterpreted according to the laity, the common faithful, and everyday practices of faith at each stage. No...
Freeing the Gospel Stories from Modern Misconceptions
It has become standard in modern interpretation to say that Jesus performed miracles, and even mainline scholarly interpreters classify Jesus's healin...
Resistance and Apocalyptic Origins
"If earlier scholarship on apocalyptic literature was once described as "clueless about apocalypticism, " it was due in part to a focus on questions o...
History, Politics, People
Who were the Galileans? What was their background? Were they descendants of ancient northern Israelites? When had they come under Jerusalem rule? What...
The Social Context of Jesus and the Rabbis
This book attempts to construct bridges of communication and engagement between the fields of archaeology and history focused on a new understanding o...
The Infancy Narratives in Social Context
Current biblical scholarship tends to treat the nativity narratives as having little historical basis and to see in them illustrations of the particul...
Prophets, Performance, and Tradition in Q
Here is a challenge to New Testament scholars to engage in a fresh analysis of Q. The authors argue that recent American study of Q has been dominated...
The Political Economic Projects of Jesus and Paul
Economic justice is the core of the biblical tradition. In this innovative volume, Horsley takes the reader deep in examining how Jesusโ economic pr...
How Jesus and Paul Ignited a Revolution and Transformed the Ancient World
Set against the backdrop of Roman imperial history, The Message and the Kingdom demonstrates how the quest for the kingdom of God by Jesus, Paul, and ...
Through careful analysis of sources, especially Josephus, Horsley explicates the deep divisions between rulers and the ruled, emphasizing the role of ...
Far from being a stable situation, the historical context in the late Second Temple Era was full of conflict at the level of the empires and that of t...
Jesus, Healing, and Exorcism
In this innovative study, Horsley builds on his earlier works concerning the problematic and misleading categories of โmagicโ and โmiracleโ to...
Studies in First Corinthians
Examining each of the major sections of 1 Corinthians, Horsley probes the disagreement Paul had with those claiming special spiritual status. The conf...
People, Power, and the Life of the Spirit
Horsley brings his skills to bear on the questions concerning religious rhetoric and empire-building. How do the teachings of Jesus affect our underst...
Conflict, Covenant, and the Hope of the Poor
Refusing a false dichotomy between 'politics' and 'religion' in Jesus' world (and our own), Richard A. Horsley explores Jesus' response to the imperia...
Orality, Memory, and Mark
Previous thinking regarding "oral tradition" imagined a one-way process of transmission, handing down the fairly intact textual chunks that would cons...
This commentary highlights both the socio-political context of 1 Corinthians and the clash of significantly different religious viewpoints represented...
Embedded in modern print culture, biblical scholars have been projecting the assumptions and concepts of print culture onto the texts they interpret. ...
Popular Movements in the Time of Jesus
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Using newly developed research methods, over one hundred scholars uncover the neglected side of church history as they offer glimpses of the religious...