Jesus and the Village Scribes Nigel Forde and political crises of pandemic

and political crises of pandemic

melt away excess weight

he drives out the demons

Biggers uncovers the remarkable treasures of the Sierra Madre

Jesus and the Village Scribes Nigel Forde and political crises of pandemicThis volume challenges Gerd Theissen's dominant thesis of "wandering radicals" as the earliest spreaders of the Jesus tradition. Several conclusions emerge: (1) the textual evidence for the "wandering radicals" hypothesis is not tenable and it must be replaced with one that more closely comports with the evidence: (2) the immediate context of the Jesus movement, and of Q in particular, is the socio economic crisis in Galilee under the Romans; and (3)