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Crowds and Power in the Early Palestinian Tradition

In: Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus
Author:
Robert J. Myles Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, r.myles@murdoch.edu.au

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30 Apr 2020
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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.

Title:
Crowds and Power in the Early Palestinian Tradition
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/17455197-01802003
Language:
English
Pages:
124–140
Keywords:
crowds; Jesus; Richard A. Horsley; Elias Canetti; individualism; Marxist exegesis
In:
Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus
In:
Volume 18: Issue 2
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
1745-5197
Print ISSN:
1476-8690
Subjects:
New Testament & Early Christian Writings, Biblical Studies, Religion in Antiquity, Religious Studies, Ancient History, Classical Studies

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