Debate over whether or not Jesus can be best interpreted within an
-apocalyptic scenario- has continued to dominate historical Jesus
studies since Schweitzer and Bultmann. In The Prophet Jesus and the
Renewal of Israel Richard Horsley shows that the apocalyptic
scenario -- with its supposed expectation of -the end of the world,
- the fiery -last judgment, - and -the parousia of the Son of Man-
-- is a modern scholarly construct that obscures the particulars of
texts, society, and history. Drawing on his wide-ranging earlier
scholarship, Horsley refocuses and reformulates investigation of
the historical Jesus in a thoroughly relational-contextual
approach. He recognizes that the sources for the historical Jesus
are not separate sayings, but rather the sustained Gospel
narratives of Jesus' mission. Horsley's new approach finds Jesus
the popular prophet engaged in a movement of renewal, resistance,
and judgment against Roman imperialism, Jerusalem rulers, and the
Pharisees.
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