Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus

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Introduction to the Special Issue

Rollens, Sarah E.

2024 Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus

doi:10.1163/17455197-bja10026

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Front matter

2024 Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus

doi:10.1163/17455197-22010000

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He’s No Spartacus: Jesus, Slavery, and the Utopian Imagination

Zeichmann, Christopher B.

2024 Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus

doi:10.1163/17455197-bja10021

AbstractJames Crossley and Robert Myles’s Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict is a considerable accomplishment in its situation of Jesus as a figure inseparable from the material conditions of labor exploitation. The present review discusses two topics that the book touches upon only briefly, but...

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A Review of Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict

Lawrence, Louise J.

2024 Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus

doi:10.1163/17455197-bja10030

AbstractThis is a review article of James Crossley's and Robert Myle's, Jesus in Class Conflict (2023). After a chapter by chapter summary, the review provides some assorted critical reflections on among other issues the 'biographical' approach still apparent here, despite a critical effort to...

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Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict

Wines, Megan

2024 Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus

doi:10.1163/17455197-bja10028

AbstractThis essay is a review of Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict by James Crossley and Robert J. Myles, a historical materialist exploration of what we know about the life of Jesus and the Jesus movement in first-century Roman Palestine. This review focuses particularly on the ways in which...

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Thoughts Turned to Jesus (or someone very probably, almost certainly, clearly somewhat like him) on Reading Crossley and Myles, Jesus

Seesengood, Robert Paul

2024 Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus

doi:10.1163/17455197-bja10031

AbstractThis essay is an extended review of, and engagement with, James Crossley and Robert J. Myles’s Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict (2023). The review particularly commends them for a work which addresses the difficult question of whether one is able to recover an ‘historical’ figure from...

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Jesus, the Crowds, and Historical Agency

Elliott, Neil

2024 Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus

doi:10.1163/17455197-bja10029

AbstractCrossley and Myles’s Jesus: A Life in Class Struggle offers an innovative and accessible reading of the movement around Jesus in terms of class struggle. The authors combine a breadth of knowledge about first-century realities, acumen in exegesis of the Gospel texts, and contemporary...

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What Made the Jesus Movement Tick?

Crossley, James; Myles, Robert J.

2024 Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus

doi:10.1163/17455197-bja10027

AbstractThis article offers a rejoinder to the five critical reviews appearing in jshj of the book by James Crossley and Robert J. Myles, Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict (Zer0 Books, 2023).

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