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Who is Jesus?: Answers to Your Questions about the Historical Jesus

Who is Jesus?: Answers to Your Questions about the Historical Jesus
By John Dominic Crossan, Richard G Watts

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #612615 in Books
  • Published on: 1999-06-30
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 144 pages

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Free Healing And Shared Eating5
This book provides a brief compilation of Crossan's lifelong study of the historical Jesus and the origins of Christianity. Its greatest strength lies in the clarity of the text which may be due mostly to the collaboration of Richard G. Watts. The format is helpful as the book is divided into nine chapters organized around such topics as the miracles attributed to Jesus and the events on Easter Sunday. Within each chapter the authors attempt to answer specific questions. Jesus is described as an eloquent but illiterate peasant who lives in an occupied land. He offers an alternative vision of a community of equals before God and each other. Free healing and shared eating are the hallmarks of the new society. Jesus invites women, children, lepers and the destitute to join him in this experiment and then to take the message to others in an effort to create a Kingdom of God here and now on this earth.

Jesus was executed brutally by the Romans but his power was still experienced by his followers after his death. The Kingdom of God of Jesus did not act as a broker between its believers and God. Jesus prevented that from happening by keeping himself constantly on the move and sending forth his followers only as itinerant missionaries. Such an organizational structure or lack of structure contrasted sharply with the design of the rival contemporary factions within Judaism as well as the Christian religion which evolved later from the Jesus movement.

The reader may find some of Crossan's theories farfetched but nobody can fault him for not being original in his thinking.

The Man From Galilee4
On many levels Crossan and Watts have given us an amazing book about the life and work of the Man from Galilee. They also have allowed us the opportunity to find God in Jesus and have not rejected the idea that the POWER of God is available to us through Jesus.