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Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder
Author(s): Richard A. Horsley (Author)
- Publisher: FORTRESS PRESS
- Publication Date: 1 Nov. 2002
- Language: English
- Print length: 188 pages
- ISBN-10: 080063490X
- ISBN-13: 9780800634902
Book Description
Building on his earlier studies of Jesus, Galilee, and the social upheavals in Roman Palestine, Horsley focuses his attention on how Jesus’ proclamation of the kingdom of God relates to Roman and Herodian power politics. In addition he examines how modern ideologies relate to Jesus’ proclamation.
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About the Author
Richard A. Horsley is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and the Study of Religion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of The Message and the Kingdom (2002 with Neil Asher Siberman), Jesus and the Spiral of Violence (1992), and Jesus and the Empire (2002).
