From Millenarianism to Dictatorship of God: The Radical Ideology of the Early Jesus Movement
By James Crossley & Robert J. Myles
This article first appeared on the Culture Matters website.
Anointing Jesus as a king ready to take his place in the coming transformation of the world was among the most obvious cultural options for an emergent Jewish social movement in Palestine without access to established channels of authority.
The early Jesus movement envisaged a regime change comin…
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