A 'Very' Self-Conscious Jesus
Trying to Take Responsiblity
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v43i3.9Keywords:
James Crossley, historical Jesus studies, ideologyAbstract
Beside his scholarly contributions to understanding Jesus, early Christian discourses and Jewish law, James Crossley has developed an influential toolkit for critical reflection on the unavoidable ideological embededness of scholarshp on Jesus. Most recently he has exposed the deep permeation of historical studies of Jesus with the neoliberal discourse in which scholars and their institutions operate. Crossley provides a compelling mirror for his readers, but cannot entirely guide us as to why we choose to look and what we hope and fear to see there.
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Crossley, James G. 2009. “Jesus the Jew since 1967.” In Jesus beyond Nationalism: Constructing the Historical Jesus in a Period of Cultural Complexity, edited by Halvor Moxnes, Ward Blanton and James G. Crossley, 111-129. London; Oakville, CT: Equinox.
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Herman, Edward S., and Noam Chomsky. 1988. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books.
Kelley, Shawn. 2002. Racializing Jesus: Race, Ideology, and the Formation of Modern Biblical Scholarship. London; New York: Routledge. ( 1 July 2014)
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Ratzinger, Joseph = Benedict. 2007. Jesus of Nazareth from the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration. New York: Doubleday.
Wedderburn, Alexander J. M. 2010. Jesus and the Historians. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
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2014-09-19
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Henderson, I. (2014). A ’Very’ Self-Conscious Jesus: Trying to Take Responsiblity. Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 43(3), 9-16. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v43i3.9
