Yagan the Outlaw
Social banditry in early colonial Australia and in the time of Jesus
The early Jewish historian Josephus (c. 37-100 CE) provides countless stories of bandits responding to the social and material upheavals in Palestine during the first century CE. In our forthcoming book Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict (2023), James Crossley and I suggest that for a non-elite Jew like Jesus, banditry was one obvious option for expressing…
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