He’s No Spartacus: Jesus, Slavery, and the Utopian Imagination
James 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 linger under t...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2024
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Journal for the study of the historical Jesus
Year: 2024, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 7-24 |
| Review of: | Jesus (Winchester : Zero Books, 2023) (Zeichmann, Christopher B.)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Jesus Christus
/ Class struggle
/ Slavery
/ Utopia
/ Spartacus -71 BC
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament HD Early Judaism KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NCE Business ethics TB Antiquity ZA Social sciences ZB Sociology ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Slavery
B Book review B social experimentation B Utopia B Historical Jesus B Class conflict |
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| Summary: | James 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 linger under the surface of their analysis: Jesus’ treatment of enslaved laborers and utopian social experimentation. This article juxtaposes Jesus with the roughly contemporaneous figure of Spartacus to consider about the availability of social experimentation and the location of slaves within class-based analyses of Roman antiquity. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5197 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the historical Jesus
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/17455197-bja10021 |