Jesus and the Hope of the Poor

by Wolfgang Stegemann and Luise Schottroff

Book Overview

According to Luise Schottroff and Wolfgang Stegemann, the search for the historical Jesus has been marked by the tendency to isolate Jesus from his disciples and from Judaism. They argue, however, that Jesus is inseparable from his first disciples and from the indigent Jews who made up the earliest Jesus movement. Understood in the context of his following, Jesus emerges from Schottroff and Stegemann as a Jew who not only proclaimed the reign of God...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606088580
• ISBN13: 9781606088586
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"