• Crowds and Power in the Early Palestinian Tradition

    Author(s):
    Robert Myles
    Date:
    2020
    Subject(s):
    Bible. New Testament
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    New Testament
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/cesn-dp44
    Abstract:
    This article draws on critical crowd theory to explore how historical Jesus research can benefit from a more robust understanding of the crowds that engulf Jesus as subjects of historical change. Conventional approaches to the crowds within New Testament scholarship are complicit in heightening Jesus’ individual exceptionalism. Rather than envisaging the crowds as part of the anonymous background to Jesus’ ministry, or as a literary invention by the Gospel authors, we should instead regard the crowds as a collective expression of underlying social, political, and economic antagonisms.
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    10.1163/17455197-01802003
    Publisher:
    Brill
    Pub. Date:
    2020-5-13
    Journal:
    Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus
    Volume:
    18
    Issue:
    2
    Page Range:
    124 - 140
    ISSN:
    1476-8690,1745-5197
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    2 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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