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Index
Overture: The Gospel of Jesus
Prologue: The Historical Jesus
PART I Brokered Empire
A Friendly Sea in a Hostile Landscape
Through the Eyes of Others
Can Anything Good Come from Nazareth?
Do Not Forget Me
A Shrine to Augustan Peace
Beggared of Paternal Estate
Against the Britons and the Asians
Social Strata in Agrarian Societies
Paradoxes in Roman Slavery
An Anti-economic Ideology
The Frog-Prince’s Passion for Trade
A Map of Patronal Society
The Bedrock of Political Life
In Heaven as It Is on Earth
Diogenes or Daedalus?
Free Under Father Zeus
The Skin of My Feet for Shoes
In the Army of the Dog
1. Then and Now
2. War and Peace
3. Slave and Patron
4. Poverty and Freedom
PART II Embattled Brokerage
At Least Hold Historical Truth in Honor
I Cannot Conceal My Private Sentiments
Sub Tiberio Quies
The Coming of the Fifth Kingdom
No Lord but God
Vegetating in the Teeth of Time
The Threat of an Agrarian Strike
Elijah and Elisha
Magicians Rabbinized
To Perform the Millennial Dream
The Unpainted Face of Agrarian Empire
A Brigand Chief with a Large Horde
A King Without a Dynasty?
Native Revolts Against Rome
A Revolution Within a Revolution
Trajectories of Peasant Turmoil
5. Aristocrat and Historian
6. Visionary and Teacher
7. Peasant and Protester
8. Magician and Prophet
9. Bandit and Messiah
10. Rebel and Revolutionary
PART III Brokerless Kingdom
By the Middle of the First Century
John and the Coming One
The Apocalyptic Son of Man
Children and Disciples Complain
Open Commensality
A Kingdom of Nobodies
A Kingdom of Undesirables
A Kingdom of Here and Now
A Kingdom of God
From Kingdom to Liturgy
Against the Patriarchal Family
Magic as Religious Banditry
A Gospel of Miracles?
Possessed by Demonic Imperialism
Event and Process in Miracle
From Miracle to Table
The Message of an Open Secret
I Will Destroy This House
Do This in Memory of Me
The Passion as Narrative
A Member of the Council 391
Meal and Sea
The Named and the Unnamed
Jesus and Judaism
A Peasant Jewish Cynic
Jesus and Christianity
11. John and Jesus
12. Kingdom and Wisdom
13. Magic and Meal
14. Death and Burial
15. Resurrection and Authority
Epilogue
Appendix 1 - An Inventory of the Jesus Tradition by Chronological Stratification and Independent Attestation
Appendix 2 - Types and Trajectories of Peasant Unrest in Early Roman Palestine
Appendix 3 - Inventory for John the Baptist Sayings [18:6+12]
Appendix 4 - Inventory for Son of Man Sayings [40:14+26]
Appendix 5 - Inventory for Kingdom Sayings [7733 + 44]
Appendix 6 - Inventory for Jesus Miracles [32:9+23]
Appendix 7 - Strata in the Gospel of Peter
Bibliography
Author Index
Text Index
Complex Index
Praise
Copyright
About the Publisher
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