Jesus Against the Forces of Death: Reading Matthew Thiessen’s Reading of the Gospels’ Reading of Jesus’ War Against Ritual Impurity

Thiessen’s book is a systematic attempt at making obsolete an entire research paradigm, which has portrayed Jesus and the gospels as targeting for eradication the Jewish purity system itself, understood as an oppressive social mechanism with which the elite controlled the masses, rather than these t...

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Main Author: Runesson, Anders 1968- (Author)
Contributors: Thiessen, Matthew 1977- (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Journal for the study of the historical Jesus
Year: 2022, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 33-49
Review of:Jesus and the forces of death (Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, 2020) (Runesson, Anders)
Jesus and the forces of death (Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, 2021) (Runesson, Anders)
Jesus and the forces of death (Grand Rapids : Baker Academic, 2020) (Runesson, Anders)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Jesus Christus / Cultic purity / Matthew
IxTheo Classification:HC New Testament
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
Further subjects:B Book review
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Summary:Thiessen’s book is a systematic attempt at making obsolete an entire research paradigm, which has portrayed Jesus and the gospels as targeting for eradication the Jewish purity system itself, understood as an oppressive social mechanism with which the elite controlled the masses, rather than these texts describing a war against the impurity that this system defined and was meant to control. This essay engages this thesis.
ISSN:1745-5197
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the historical Jesus
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/17455197-bja10004