This book is an analysis of historical Jesus scholarship in its economic and cultural contexts.

• Introduction


• 1: Does Jesus Plus Paul Equal Marx Plus Lenin? Re-directing the Historical Jesus


• 2: Criteria, Historicity, and the Earliest Palestinian Tradition


• 3: Empire of God, King of Rome: Kingdom and Christology


• 4: 'Sinners', Law, and Purity


• 5: Camping with Jesus? Gender, Revolution, and Early Palestinian Tradition


• An Irrelevant Conclusion

James Crossley is Professor of Bible, Culture and Politics at the University of Sheffield. His research focuses on both Christian origins and contemporary receptions of the Bible and how they both related to contexts of historical change. His is author of numerous articles and books, including Jesus in an Age of Neoliberalism: Quests, Scholarship and Ideology (Acumen, 2012).