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Conflict, holiness, and politics in the teachings of Jesus / Marcus J. Borg ; foreword by N. T. Wright.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Borg, Marcus J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jesus Christ--Political and social views.
- Jesus Christ.
- Jesus Christ--Views on Jewish ritual purity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- HTML
- Summary:
- Originally published in 1984, this extraordinary work has until now been available only in an expensive library edition. The present edition has been completely updated and redesigned, and includes an extended new introduction by Marcus Borg that relates the book's central arguments to subsequent Jesus scholarship. A foreword by N.T. Wright characterizes the book as one of the foundational works in the third quest for the historical Jesus.In the book, Marcus Borg argues that conflict between a politics of holiness and a politics of compassion, and their implications for Israel, resides at the
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword to the New Edition; Abbreviations; Introduction to the New Edition; Reflecting on CHP's Central Claims; Where I Have Changed My Mind; This Edition of CHP; 1 Introduction; 2. The Multiform Character of Jewish Resistance to Rome; 3. The Dynamics of Jewish Resistance to Rome: The Quest for Holiness; 4. Jesus and the Quest for Holiness: Opposition; 5. Jesus and the Quest for Holiness: The Alternative Paradigm; 6. Jesus and the Quest for Holiness: The Sabbath; 7. Jesus and the Quest for Holiness: The Temple; 8. Jesus and the Future
- 9. Conclusion: Prophetic Conflict and Mystical EschatologyAppendix: The Threat/Warrant Tradition of the Synoptic Gospels; Bibliography; Index of Biblical References; Index of Subjects; Index of Modern Authors
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York, N.Y. : E. Mellen, 1984, in series: Studies in the Bible and early Christianity.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-293) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613197351
- 9781501360008
- 1501360000
- 9781283197359
- 1283197359
- 9780567384065
- 0567384063
- OCLC:
- 741691416
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