Politics, conflict, and movements in first-century Palestine / Richard A. Horsley ; edited by K.C. Hanson.
| Author/creator | Horsley, Richard A. author. |
| Other author | Hanson, K. C. (Kenneth C.), editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2023] |
| Description | xxxvii, 266 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | High priests and the politics of Roman Palestine -- Part 1. Banditry : a symptom of social conflict -- Josephus and the bandits -- Ancient Judean banditry -- Part 2. Messiahs : popularly acclaimed kings -- Popular messianic movements -- Part 3. Prophets : the call for God's intervention -- Like one of the prophets of old -- Popular prophetic movements -- Part 4. Assassins and revolutionaries : taking it to the streets -- The Sicarii -- Menahem in Jerusalem -- The Zealots. |
| Abstract | "This volume brings together groundbreaking essays that laid the foundations of several of Horsley's later works. The initial aims of these essays were, first, to ferret out evidence from our sources, primarily from the histories of Josephus, evidence for the lives of ordinary people living in Judean and Galilean villages. A second purpose was to explore as precisely as possible the fundamental conflictual division between the Roman, Herodian, and high priestly rulers in Palestine and the Judean and Galilean villagers they ruled. A third purpose was to explore more particularly how the popular and scribal opposition to the rulers was manifested in a remarkable diversity of movements and their leaders. And the fourth purpose, entailed in the first two, was to wriggle out from under some of the controlling constructs of New Testament/biblical studies that had been hiding the considerable complexity of the historical context. This was necessary even to begin to discern more precisely the fundamental political--economic--religious conflict between the rulers and the villagers manifested in a diversity of social movements attested in the sources"--Page 4 of cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-252) and indexes. |
| ISBN | 9781666730708 |
| ISBN | 166673070X |
| ISBN | 9781666722536 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1666722537 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |